'Being in Ancient Egypt'. Thoughts on Agency, Materiality and Cognition

By Rune Nyord

Papers from a seminar held at the University of Copenhagen in September 2006. Contents: A New Look at the Conception of the Human Being in Ancient Egypt (John Gee); 2) Between Identity and Agency in Ancient Egyptian Ritual (Harold M. Hays); 3) Material Agency, Attribution and Experience of Agency in Ancient Egypt: The case of New Kingdom private temple statues (Annette Kjby); 4) Self-perception and Self-assertion in the Portrait of Senwosret III: New methods for reading a face ((Maya Mueller); 5) Taking Phenomenology to Heart: Some heuristic remarks on studying ancient Egyptian embodied experience (Rune Nyord); 6) Anger and Agency: The role of the emotions in Demotic and earlier narratives (John Tait); 7) Time and Space in Ancient Egypt: The importance of the creation of abstraction (David A. Warburton); Index of Egyptian and Greek words and expressions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407305948
• ISBN13: 9781407305943
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.5"