Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt

A generously illustrated selection of John Baines's influential writings on two core areas of ancient Egyptian civilization: the role of writing, which was very different in antiquity from what is familiar in the modern world, and the importance of visual culture. These questions are explored through a number of case studies. The volume assembles articles that were scattered in publications in a variety of disciplines, making available key contributions on core problems of theory, comparison, and analysis in the study of many civilizations and offering important points of departure for further research. Three wholly new essays are included, and the overall approach is an interdisciplinary one, synthesizing insights from archaeology, anthropology, and art history as well as Egyptology.

John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.

List of figures	p. x
Conventions	p. xv
Chronological table	p. xvi
Map	p. xvii
Prologue
Visual, written, decorum	p. 3
Written Culture
Literacy and ancient Egyptian society	p. 33
Four notes on literacy	p. 63
Literacy, social organization, and the archaeological record: the case of early Egypt	p. 95
Writing and society in early Egypt	p. 117
Orality and literacy	p. 146
Updates to Chapters. 2-5; comparative studies	p. 170
Ancient Egyptian concepts and uses of the past: third to second millennium evidence	p. 179
Visual Culture
Introductory note	p. 205
Theories and universals of representation: Heinrich Schafer and Egyptian art	p. 207
Schafer's mottoes and the understanding of representation	p. 236
Colour terminology and colour classification: ancient Egyptian colour terminology and polychromy	p. 240
Stone and other materials: usages and values	p. 263
Communication and display: the integration of early Egyptian art and writing	p. 281
On the status and purposes of ancient Egyptian art	p. 298
References	p. 338
Index	p. 407
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