Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology: Towards a Better Understanding of Cultural Encounters and Their Influence on Material Culture

by Bettina Bader

The book examines the connection between identity and material culture, which forms the backbone of archaeology. The assumed direct relationship between the things of daily life and the aspects of identity such as gender, age or ethnicity to name but a few is challenged under consideration of post-colonial theories and critically applied to a case study in ancient Egypt (Tell el-Dab'a), which provides exclusively material culture for interpretation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 370018798X
• ISBN13: 9783700187981
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.