Middle & Near East
Searching History: The Non-Elite in Ancient Egypt
By , University of Michigan (March 2007)
Sections: Middle & Near East
Subjects: History Writing, Social History, Archaeology, Study of History, History.
Places: Western Asia, Asia, Middle and Near East.
Periods: 3500 BCE - 1 CE, Pre-history, General.
Key Topic: social issues.
Abstract
This article surveys the place of non-elites and popular culture in recent trends in social and cultural history, with particular reference to currents in Egyptology. Both archaeological and historiographical developments are reviewed and found to be largely complementary. The aim is to establish a framework within which to study non-elites in Egyptian history, and this article concludes with a brief discussion of the New Kingdom village of Deir el-Medina, one of the most fruitful Egyptian sites for the study of popular culture.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00418.x
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