ABSTRACT
This book is the start of a conversation. It brings together a disparate group of people who, while working alone, have also begun to ask questions that are of relevance to each other. These people research the history of Egyptology: the disciplined study of ancient Egypt. Yet, this “field” of historical research does not currently coalesce around shared aims or methods, and it is uncertain whether the people working within it would perceive the need for this amalgamation to occur. This volume, then, is an attempt to address this issue. It attempts to ask what a dialogue about the history of Egyptology that is informed by and crosses a variety of disciplinary perspectives can achieve and also attempts to work out how that dialogue might take place. What, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, constitutes the history (or histories) of Egyptology? What does this history consist of, and what (or who) should it be for? How can Interdisciplinary Measures suggest the direction the writing of that history (or those histories) might take?
