Unwrapping Ancient Egypt

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Christina Riggs

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First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and at how their unwrapping has shaped the way we think about the Egyptian past. Wrapping mummified bodies and divine statues in linen reflected the cultural values attached to this textile, with implications for understanding gender, materiality and hierarchy in Egyptian society. Unwrapping mummies and statues similarly reflects the values attached to Egyptian antiquities in the West, where the colonial legacies of archaeology, Egyptology and racial science still influence how Egypt appears in museums and the press. From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Arab Spring, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt raises critical questions about the deep-seated fascination with this culture – and what that fascination says about our own.

Author Biography:

Christina Riggs is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, UK.

Release date Australia

April 10th, 2014

Author

Christina Riggs

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

68 bw illus

Pages

336

Dimensions

156x234x18

ISBN-13

9780857855398

Product ID

21544671

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