Syllabus

Lecture 1: Introduction to the study of social life and New Kingdom Egypt.

Only general reading required.

Lecture 2: Becoming a Person

Janssen. J. and R. M. Janssen. 1990: Growing up in Ancient Egypt. London, Rubicon Press. Meskell, L. M. 1999: Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class etc. in Ancient Egypt. Oxford, Blackwell.

Lecture 3: Birth and Mortality

Meskell, L. M. 1994: Dying Young: the experience of death at Deir el Medina, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 13(2): 35-45.
Meskell, L. M. 1996: The somatisation of archaeology: institutions, discourses, corporeality, Norwegian Archaeological Review 29(1): 1-16.
Robins, G. 1994-5: Women and children in peril: pregnancy, birth and infant mortality in ancient Egypt, KMT 5(4): 24-35.

Lecture 4: Children as Individuals

Feucht, E. 1995: Das Kind im alten €gypten. Frankfurt/New York, Campus Verlag.
Janssen, J. J. and R. M. Janssen. 1990: Growing up in Ancient Egypt. London, Rubicon Press. Meskell, L. M. 1999: Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class etc. in Ancient Egypt. Oxford, Blackwell. Pinch, G. 1994: Magic in Ancient Egypt. London, British Museum Press.

Lecture 5: Spheres of Adolescence

Meskell, L. M. 1999: Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class etc. in Ancient Egypt. Oxford, Blackwell.
Robins, G. 1996: Dress, undress, and the representation of fertility and potency in New Kingdom Egyptian Art. In Sexuality in Ancient Art, N. Boymel Kampen (Ed.). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 27-40.
Wilfong, T. 1999: Menstrual synchrony and the "Place of Women" in ancient Egypt. (Oriental Institute Museum Hieratic Ostracon 13512). In God of Praise: Studies in Honour of Professor Edward F. Wente, E. Teeter and J. A. Larson (Ed.). Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Lecture 6: Sexualities

Foucault, M. 1978: The History of Sexuality. Vol. 1. London, Routledge.
Manniche, L. 1987: Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. London and New York, Kegan Paul Inc. Montserrat, D. 1996: Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt. London, Kegan Paul International.
Parkinson, R. B. 1995: 'Homosexual' desire and Middle Kingdom literature, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 81: 57-76.

Lecture 7: Horizons of Marriage

Janssen, J. J. 1988: Marriage problems and public reactions (P. BM 10416). In Pyramid Studies and Other Essays Presented to I. E. S. Edwards, J. Baines, T. G. H. James, A. Leahy and A. F. Shore (Ed.). London, Egypt Exploration Society, pp. 134-137.
Robins, G. 1993: Women in Ancient Egypt. London, British Museum.
Toivari, J. 1997: Man versus woman: interpersonal disputes in the workmen's community of Deir el Medina, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 39(4): 1 - 21.
Toivari, J. 1998: Marriage at Deir el Medina. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, C. J. Eyre (Ed.). Leuven, Uitgeverij Peeters, pp. 1157 - 1163.

Lecture 8: Love and other Troubles

Foster, J. L. 1992: Love Songs of the New Kingdom. Austin, University of Texas Press.
Fox, M. V. 1995: The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin. McDowell, A. G. 1999: Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Lecture 9: Domestic Scenarios

Kemp, B. J. 1979: Wall paintings from the workmen's village at el-Amarna, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 65: 47-53.
McDowell, A. G. 1999: Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Meskell, L. M. 1998: An archaeology of social relations in an Egyptian village, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 5(3): 209 - 243.
Romer, J. 1984: Ancient Lives: The Story of the Pharaoh's Tombmakers. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Lecture 10: Social and Sexual Inequalities

Brumfiel, E. M. 1992: Distinguished lecture in archaeology: breaking and entering the ecosystem Ñ gender, class, and faction steal the show, American Anthropologist 94: 551 - 567.
Meskell, L. M. 1999: Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class etc. in Ancient Egypt. Oxford, Blackwell.
Meskell, L. M. 1998: Intimate archaeologies: the case of Kha and Merit, World Archaeology 29(3): 363-379.
Wilfong, T. G., Ed. 1997: Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity, Ann Arbor, MI, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

Lecture 11: The Woman Question

Bryan, B. M. 1996: In woman good and bad fortune are on earth: status and roles of women in Egyptian culture. In Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt, A. K. Capel and G. E. Markoe (Ed.). New York, Hudson Hills Press, pp. 25-46. Lesko, B. S. 1994-5: Researching the role of women in ancient Egypt, KMT 5(4): 14-23. Robins, G. 1993: Women in Ancient Egypt. London, British Museum

Lecture 12: Attitudes to Death

Cerny, J. 1945: The will of Naunakhte and related documents, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 31: 29-53.
D'Auria, S., P. Lacovara and C. H. Roehrig, Eds. 1988: Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston and Dallas, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Dallas Museum of Art.
Janssen, R. and J. J. Janssen. 1996: Getting Old in Ancient Egypt. London, Rubicon Press. Lloyd, A. B. 1989: Psychology and society in the ancient Egyptian cult of the dead. In Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt, W. K. Simpson (Ed.). New Haven, Yale Egyptological Studies, pp. 117 - 133.

Lecture 13: Facing the Afterworld

Assmann, J. 1989b: Death and initiation in the funerary religion of ancient Egypt. In Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt, W. K. Simpson (Ed.). New Haven, Yale Egyptology Series 3, pp. 135 - 159.
Baines, J. 1991: Society, morality, and religious practice. In Religion in Ancient Egypt, B. E. Shafer (Ed.). London, Routledge, pp. 123 - 200.