High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt - John Baines
A planned world? The early city, patterns and meanings of settlement
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).
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The chapter reviews more deliberate treatments of settled space also through human intervention, especially estates and their distribution, as much for symbolic as for pragmatic purposes. Settlement, as the prime context of planning of human environments, is considered socially riven.