Kinship and family in ancient Egypt : archaeology and anthropology in dialogue /
In this interdisciplinary study, Leire Olabarria examines ancient Egyptian society through the notion of kinship. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. Ol...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : ancient Egyptian kinship between relatedness and material agency
- Understanding the sources : dating, characterisation, contextualisation, and display
- Setting the terms : etic and emic approaches to ancient Egyptian relatedness
- Between the emic and the etic : kin groups in ancient Egypt
- Dynamising kin groups
- The birth of a kin group : from filiation to group formation
- The summit of a developmental cycle : non-genealogical relatedness
- Displaying decline: survival strategies and marriage patterns
- Conclusions : the dynamism of the social fabric.
