TY - BOOK ID - 86026210 TI - Ceramic perspectives on ancient Egyptian society PY - 2021 SN - 1108881483 1108895573 1108898211 1108744133 9781108881487 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Pottery KW - History. KW - Egypt KW - Antiquities. KW - Social life and customs KW - Civilization KW - Ceramic art KW - Ceramics (Art) KW - Chinaware KW - Crockery KW - Earthenware KW - Pottery, Primitive KW - Ceramics KW - Decorative arts KW - House furnishings KW - Firing (Ceramics) KW - Saggers KW - Ceràmica egípcia KW - Història KW - Egipte KW - Arqueologia KW - Vida social i costums UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86026210 AB - This Element demonstrates how ceramics, a dataset that is more typically identified with chronology than social analysis, can forward the study of Egyptian society writ large. This Element argues that the sheer mass of ceramic material indicates the importance of pottery to Egyptian life. Ceramics form a crucial dataset with which Egyptology must critically engage, and which necessitate working with the Egyptian past using a more fluid theoretical toolkit. This Element will demonstrate how ceramics may be employed in social analyses through a focus on four broad areas of inquiry: regionalism; ties between province and state, elite and non-elite; domestic life; and the relationship of political change to social change. While the case studies largely come from the Old through Middle Kingdoms, the methods and questions may be applied to any period of Egyptian history. ER -