Histories of Egyptology Interdisciplinary Measures [Hardcover]

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 Egyptologyprovides 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.

1. Introduction: Thinking about Histories of Egyptology William CarruthersPart I: The Creation and Isolation of an Academic Discipline2. The Object of Study: Egyptology, Archaeology, and Anthropology at Oxford, 18601960 Alice Stevenson3. The Anglo-Saxon Branch of the Berlin School: The Interwar Correspondence of Adolf Erman and Alan Gardiner and the Loss of the German Concession at Amarna Thomas Gertzen4. The Cursed Discipline? The Peculiarities of Egyptology at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Juan Carlos Moreno Garc?a5. Interdisciplinary Measures: Beyond Disciplinary Histories of Egyptology David GangePart II: Knowledge in the Making6. Beyond Travelers Accounts and Reproductions: Unpublished Nineteenth-Century Works as Histories of Egyptology Andrew Bednarski7. Studies in Esoteric Syntax: The Enigmatic Friendship of Aleister Crowley and Battiscombe Gunn Steve Vinson and Janet Gunn8. Margaret Alice Murray and Archaeological Training in thel3