High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt - John Baines
Elite experience
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 draws together some threads of argument, discussing movement, travel, and presence, with the aim of broadening the interpretations offered. In this respect, two fundamental contexts and meanings for the category of experience are offered. The significance of experience is brought into focus by the first-person form of most biographical inscriptions, device which is paralleled in many Egyptian literary texts.