High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt - John Baines
Contexts and representations of high culture
High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt - John Baines
John Baines [+]
University of Oxford
John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. His principal publications are on Egyptian art, literature, and religion. He has also studied the role of writing in Egyptian society and high-cultural legitimations and concerns of elites. His publications include Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt (2007) and The Disappearance of Writing Systems (co-edited with John Bennet and Stephen Houston, Equinox, 2008).
Description
This chapter introduces the aim of the study, as well as the main topics of each chapter. High culture is presented as a domain that structures aspects of elite life and is indispensable in imparting full meaning to it, as well as intensifying its self-contained character. The book considers the physical environment and the landscape vital, and the themes as having implications for the urban–rural balance.