Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary MeasuresWilliam Carruthers Routledge, 2014 M07 11 - 298 pages Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others. Yet, particularly as Egypt undergoes a contested process of political redefinition, how do we write these histories, and what (or who) are they for? This volume addresses a variety of important themes, the historical involvement of Egyptology with the political sphere, the manner in which the discipline stakes out its professional territory, the ways in which practitioners represent Egyptological knowledge, and the relationship of this knowledge to the public sphere. Histories of Egyptology provides the basis to understand how Egyptologists constructed their discipline. Yet the volume also demonstrates how they construct ancient Egypt, and how that construction interacts with much wider concerns: of society, and of the making of the modern world. |
Contents
1977 | |
The Creation and Isolation of an Academic Discipline | |
The Cursed Discipline? The Peculiarities of Egyptology at the Turn | |
Knowledge in the Making | |
The Enigmatic Friendship of Aleister | |
Discussing Knowledge in the Making | |
Colonial Mediations Postcolonial Responses | |
Manipulating Memory in Modern Egypt | |
Representing Knowledge | |
The High Priest Character in Mummy Horror Films | |
Whats in a Face? Mummy Portrait Panels and Identity in Museum | |
Postscript | |
Contributors | |