Histories of Egyptology : Interdisciplinary Measures
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 182633951
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415843690
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- In 2010, Carruthers co-organized a conference (‘Disciplinary Measures? Histories of Egyptology in Multi-Disciplinary Context’) with Stephen Quirke (UCL Institute of Archaeology), Ayman el-Desouky (then-SOAS/SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies), and Christopher Naunton (then-Egypt Exploration Society). The conference aimed to place histories of Egyptology within a (until-then-lacking) rigorous historical and theoretical framework, in addition to thinking through the field’s inter-disciplinary possibilities. Carruthers proceeded to pitch and edit this book of eighteen chapters, comprising revised versions of some conference papers together with extra, commissioned pieces further emphasizing historical and theoretical themes.
The book’s authors are junior and senior, world-leading scholars from an unprecedented mix of disciplines: archaeology, architecture, art history, Egyptology, history, and the history of science. Carruthers took care to include chapters written by Egyptians, whose voices within Egyptology had long been marginalized; the incorporation of a chapter on labour history in Egyptian archaeology helped achieve this aim. Carruthers commented on contributors’ drafts multiple times in an intensive process of revision. To strengthen the volume’s inter-disciplinary basis, revised chapters were then arranged into four thematic sections and sent to four ‘discussants’: senior or methodologically innovative scholars who, within their own chapters, provided rigorous theoretical commentary on the pieces, teasing out possibilities for future work.
Carruthers wrote a substantial introduction to the book, providing a rigorous historiographical commentary on previous work in the field, addressing the various themes that had emerged during the editorial process, and suggesting future methodological directions for histories of Egyptology. Buttressing the volume’s contents, Carruthers emphasised that it should no longer be possible to view the histories of Egyptology as ‘pure’ or isolated from the world of which they were a part.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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