Current Research in Egyptology 12 (2011): Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium
Author(s): Heba Abd El Gawad (Editor), Nathalie Andrews (Editor), Maria Correas-Amador (Editor), Veronica Tamorri (Editor)
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2012
Language: English
Print length: 232 pages
ISBN-10: 1842174983
ISBN-13: 9781842174982
Book Description
The twelfth annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium aimed to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field of Egyptology. Papers in these proceedings reflect this multidisciplinarity, with research based on Archaeology, Linguistics, Cultural Astronomy, Historiography, Botany, Religion and Law, amongst others. By means of one or several of these disciplines, contributors to this volume approach a broad range of subjects spanning from Prehistory to modern Egypt, including: self-presentation, identity, provenance and museum studies, funerary art and practices, domestic architecture, material culture, mythology, religion, commerce, economy, dream interpretation and the birth of Egyptology as a discipline.
Current Research in Egyptology 11 (2010): Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Symposium
Author(s): Maarten Horn (Editor), Joost Kramer (Editor), Daniel Soliman (Editor), Carina van den Hoven (Editor), Lara Weiss (Editor), Nico Staring (Editor)
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Publication Date: 15 April 2011
Language: English
Print length: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 1842174290
ISBN-13: 9781842174296
Book Description
After having been held in the UK for the past 10 years, the 11th edition of the annual Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) graduate conference was held at Leiden University, The Netherlands in January 2010. As always, the main aim of the conference was to provide graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology with the opportunity to present their research. The proceedings of this year’s conference cover a wide range of topics from the Predynastic Period to modern Egypt. The papers reflect a similar variety in areas of research and scientific approach, for example, by applying the linguistic prototype theory to ancient Egyptian texts or by using an ethnoarchaeological approach for the study of modern mud-brick architecture. The topics covered include Egyptian religion, ranging from the Coffin Texts to the decoration of temple walls in Ptolemaic times, as well as sociological issues in the Middle and New Kingdom. Other contributions focus on the study of the chronology of the Middle Kingdom with the help of lunar ephemerides or well-stratified radiocarbon data versus pottery data. In summary, Proceedings of Current Research in Egyptology XI includes 19 selected papers on artefact studies, burial practices and provisioning for the afterlife, economy and sociology, history and chronological studies, linguistics, philology and religion.
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About the Author
Nico Staring is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Vidi project The Walking Dead at Saqqara: The Making of a Cultural Geography, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2017-2021). Staring studied Archaeology and Egyptology at Leiden University and received his doctorate at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in 2016.
Dr. Lara Weiss is curator of the Egyptian collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands. She studied Egyptology in Berlin and Leiden and received her doctoral degree in Göttingen in 2012. She is especially interested in the daily life of the ancient Egyptians and their mode of religious experience. Both her master’s dissertation and her doctoral thesis related to religion in Deir el-Medina, where the labourers lived who worked in the Valley of the Kings. Since 2012 she has been involved as a teacher and a researcher in the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”, hosted by the University of Erfurt (Germany). Her research for that project is focused on religion in Roman Karanis (in the Fayoum Oasis). Weiss will play a central role in the reorganization of the Egyptian department at the National Museum of Antiquities in 2016 and will be involved in developing international travelling exhibitions. She will also support her fellow curator, Prof. Maarten Raven, in his work on the excavation run by the museum in the Egyptian town of Saqqara.
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