ABSTRACT
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 Egyptology provides 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
The Creation and Isolation of an Academic Discipline
chapter 2|15 pages
The Object of Study
chapter 3|16 pages
The Anglo-Saxon Branch of the Berlin School
chapter 4|14 pages
The Cursed Discipline?
part II|60 pages
Knowledge in the Making
chapter 6|15 pages
Beyond Travelers' Accounts and Reproductions
chapter 7|17 pages
Studies in Esoteric Syntax
chapter 8|16 pages
Margaret Alice Murray and Archaeological Training in the Classroom
part III|59 pages
Colonial Mediations, Postcolonial Responses
chapter 11|17 pages
Remembering and Forgetting Tutankhamun
chapter 12|11 pages
The State of the Archive
part IV|71 pages
Representing Knowledge