UCL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCLG342:
Intangible Dimensions of Museum Objects from Egypt
2015-16
Option, 15 credits
Turnitin Class ID for this course: 2971246
Turnitin Password: IoA1516
Co-ordinator: STEPHEN QUIRKE
s.quirke@ucl.ac.uk
Office: Room 409 (4th floor of Institute of Archaeology)
Telephone: internal 21526, external (020)76.79.15.26
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OVERVIEW
Short description
This material-theoretical course addresses ethical foundations for museum practice
and archaeological research in the context of Egyptian Nile Valley societies, through
their tangible and audible presences in London. Egyptian objects in Institute of
Archaeology collections and the Petrie Museum provide visual anchors for weekly
debates on themes around material crafts in the Muqaddima “Principles” by Arab
historian Ibn Khaldun (AD 1332-1406/AH732-808). Arabic and Egyptian writings offer
resources for re-centring theory and practice outside dominant European-language
structures of thought. African-centred and other approaches are considered as
sources for further critical and transformative challenges to contemporary encounters
with material culture.
Week-by-week summary
All seminars are facilitated by the Course Co-ordinator Stephen Quirke. Seminars
take place in the Institute of Archaeology room 412.
TERM 1
15.1.16
22.1.16
29.1.16
5.2.16
12.2.16
14:00
14:00
14:00
14:00
14:00
1. Nile Sustenance: return of the Whole Eye craft of agriculture
2. Time and Monument craft of architecture
3. Seeing Beauties: visual, material, intangible craft of carpentry
4. Living Things: in-/animate spectrum craft of weaving and tailoring
5. Birth in an Egyptian Village craft of midwifery
15-19.2.16 READING WEEK (NO TEACHING)
26.2.16
4.3.16
11.3.16
18.3.16
23.3.16
14:00
14:00
14:00
14:00
14:00
6. Healing: embracing - rejecting craft of medicine
7. Hearing Things: sounds of objects Calligraphy, the craft of writing
8. Frames of knowledge craft of book production
9. Material as performance craft of singing and music
10. Concluding object chains
SEE BACK PAGE FOR COURSEWORK PROCEDURE LINKS
Basic texts: background for African-centred Egyptology, Arabic-language sources,
and Egyptological history
The focus of this course is on issues and debates applicable across archaeology and
museum studies, as parts of a wider field of cultural studies. The course builds on
the case-study of one region, on the principle that those debates benefit from testing
on specific geographical and historical ground. The short lists below provide initial
access to three dimensions of the selected regional debate, while the first two titles
give an archaeological setting for the general field of debate, and a specific comment
in relation to the archaeology of Egypt.
Habu, J., C. Fawcett, J. Matsunaga (eds.), Introduction. In their Evaluating multiple
narratives: beyond nationalist, colonialist, imperialist archaeologies, Dordrecht 2008
ONLINE from http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-71825-5/page/1
Hansen, N. Arabic and Its Role in Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology. In
Archaeologies 4 (2008), 171-174 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11759008-9061-0
African contexts:
Exell, K. Egypt in its African Context. Manchester, 2009 EGYPTOLOGY
QUARTOS B 20 EXE
Kamugisha, A. Finally in Africa? Egypt, from Diop to Celenko. In Race Class 45,
2003, pp.31-60 ONLINE
Karenga, M. Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt : a study in classical African
ethics. New York, 2004 EGYPTOLOGY R 5 KAR
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, Decolonising the mind: the politics of language in African
literature London 1986 LITERATURE A 43 NGU
Obenga, T. Ancient Egypt and Black Africa: a student's handbook for the study of
Ancient Egypt in philosophy, linguistics, and gender relations. London, 1992.
EGYPTOLOGY B20 OBE
Rowlands, M., DeJong, F. (eds.). Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of
Memory in West Africa. Walnut Creek, 2007
Schmidt, P. (ed.) Postcolonial archaeologies in Africa. Santa Fe 2009 INST ARCH
DC 100 SCH see especially the closing reflections from outside the discipline, by
Faye Harrison, ch.14 Reworking African(ist) archaeology in the postcolonial period
Arabic writings in translation, with discussion, and introduction to Arabic literature:
Allen, R. Introduction to Arabic Literature, Cambridge 2000 ONLINE
Colla, E. Conflicted antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity.
Durham N.C. 2007 EGYPTOLOGY A 8 COL
Dale, S. Ibn Khaldun: the last Greek and the first Annaliste historian. International
Journal of Middle East Studies, 38, 2006, pp 431-451. ONLINE
Dawood, N. introduction to abridged version of F. Rosenthal translation of Ibn
Khaldun, The Muqaddimah. An Introduction to History. Princeton [1967] 2015
MAIN LIBRARY HISTORY 53 D IBN; see also full edition Rosenthal translation at
SCIENCE LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY PA 91 IBN
El-Daly, O. Egyptology: the missing millennium. Ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic
writings, London 2005 EGYPTOLOGY A 8 ELD
Mitchell, T. Colonising Egypt. Cambridge 1988 INST ARCH DCA 200 MIT
Archaeology and history of Egypt from prehistory to early modern times:
Bagnall, R. Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: sources and approaches. Aldershot
2006 EGYPTOLOGY B 15 BAG
Bagnall, R. Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700. Cambridge 2007
EGYPTOLOGY B 17 BAG
Behrens-Abouseif, D. Islamic architecture in Cairo: an introduction. Leiden 1989
STORE 07-1207
Kemp, B. Ancient Egypt. Anatomy of a civilization, Cambridge, 2nd edition 2006
ISSUE DESK IOA KEM and EGYPTOLOGY B 5 KEM (note that this second
edition is substantially revised from the 1st edition 1989).
Riggs, C. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt. Oxford 2012
EGYPTOLOGY B 16 RIG
Wendrich, W. (ed.) Egyptian Archaeology. Malden MA and Oxford 2010 ISSUE
DESK IOA WEN 9
Wengrow, D. The archaeology of early Egypt: social transformations in North-East
Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC. Cambridge 2006 EGYPTOLOGY B 11 WEN
Winter, M. Egyptian Society under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798. London 1992.
EGYPTOLOGY B 19 WIN
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL
The course introduces objects from the Petrie Museum, Malet Place. The online
catalogue is fully illustrated but (as with all online museum catalogues) only partedited: www.petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk. There is also a support learning website
illustrated by items in the collection www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk. For the collection
history and archive, and contemporary responses to individual objects in it, see:
Drower, M. Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology. London 1985. EGYPTOLOGY A
8 PET
Drower, M. Letters from the Desert: the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda
Petrie. Oxford 2004 EGYPTOLOGY A 8 PET
Stevenson, A. (ed.) The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: characters and
collections. London 2014 EGYPTOLOGY C 10 PET and ONLINE
Methods of assessment
This course is assessed by means of two pieces of coursework, each of maximum
2000 words, which each contribute 50% to the final grade for the course: details
below, under Coursework.
Teaching methods
The course is taught through ten two-hour seminars in UCL, each comprising:
(1) English translations from Arabic and Egyptian writings; (2) individual or joint
presentations on the essential readings for the topic of the week; (3) group
discussion of these sources in the context of non-European knowledge production,
including possible points of relation to archaeological and critical theory in European
languages.
Discussions take place in the presence of an item from an archaeology collection.
Each seminar will conclude with the outline of preparatory reading and tasks
proposed for the next week.
Workload
There will be 20 hours of seminars for this course. Students will be expected to
undertake around 90 hours of reading for the course, plus 40 hours preparing for and
producing the assessed work. This adds up to a total workload of some 150 hours
for the course.
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. The course has a general focus on
people living in and material found in Egypt, from the fourth millennium BC onwards.
Any student wishing for additional support on any aspect or period should speak to
the Course Co-ordinator. Students without previous learning on earlier periods may
wish to consider attendance at the undergraduate course ARCL2012 Archaeology of
Ancient Egypt: please ask the Course Co-ordinator for ARCL2012 in Week 1.
2 AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND ASSESSMENT
Aims
• to introduce students to the potential and the constraints in contemporary
engagement with material culture from times and places identified as ‘other’
• to provide students with critical awareness of a wider range of non-European
sources with potential for new research horizons in archaeology museum
studies
• to introduce students to current research in theory and practice in the study of
material from Egypt
• to develop critical faculties both in debate and in written evaluation of rival
interpretations and perspectives on archaeological evidence in open cultural
and social horizons
• to develop research-oriented skills appropriate to cultural and museum
studies and to the archaeology of other times/places
Objectives
On successful completion of this course a student should:
• be able to discuss obstacles to contemporary understanding of the ‘other’ in
time and place, including but not only with particular reference to Egypt
• be able to comment critically and analytically on basic intra-disciplinary
terminology current in archaeological and historical studies of Egypt
• be able to critique constructively sources outside the regular range of current
museum studies and archaeological theory and practice
• understand practical and ethical issues of direct encounters with material from
another time and place
• be familiar with means of locating and using key London library and museum
resources in relation to the course
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course students should be able to demonstrate:
• an ability to criticize and evaluate quality of evidence and interpretations in the
research debates over material from another time and/or place
• an ability to conduct and communicate independent research in library and
archive across a range of topics around the material cultures from other times/
places including Egypt
• awareness of the broader context as well as outline of the empirical content of
material cultures as discussed in this course in relation to Egypt
improved oral presentation and discussion skills
an ability to design an original research project in this field
an ability to lead a theoretically-engaged object-centred seminar or class, to
ethical standards
Coursework is designed to assess progress on these learning outcomes.
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Coursework
Assessment tasks
There are two essays for assessment of this course, each of a maximum 2,000
words. Please note the assessment criteria tabulated on the back of essay coversheets, noting the smaller print with explanatory details of, e.g., structure, sources
and evidence. One essential transferable skill from university courses is the ability to
develop a structured argument within a set word-limit: accordingly, one of the criteria
for assessment (as specified on the back of the obligatory essay cover-sheets)
includes keeping within the word-limit: see below. For each essay, the exact
absolute core word-count must not exceed 2,100.
Selection and quality of illustrations constitute another assessment criterion.
Essay title options:
NB For both essays (coursework 1 and 2), you may propose another title in
line with your degree and interests, but this title MUST be discussed, and its
final title wording agreed, with the Course Co-ordinator no later than 2 weeks
before the submission deadline
Coursework 1
submission deadline 15.2.2016
Options
1. In approaching objects from any past, which do you consider the greater
obstacle: Eurocentrism, or the dominance of the English language?
For this essay, start from a constructive critical reading of the following:
W. Wendrich, G. van der Kooij (eds.), Moving matters: ethnoarchaeology in the Near
East (Leiden 2002) INST ARCH DBA 100 WEN for Egyptian archaeology, see the
chapter by W. Wendrich, The relevance of ethnoarchaeology: an Egyptian
perspective
A. Marciniak, N. Yalman, Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies: Traditions, Theories,
Prospects, New York 2013 ONLINE note in particular the Introduction, which is also
available on Google Books
An introduction to problems of linguistic Anglocentrism can be found in the writings
by Anna Wiezbicka, e.g. Emotions across Languages and Cultures : Diversity and
Universals (Cambridge 1999) ONLINE
The approach by Wiezbicka may be usefully combined with recent archaeological
debate, e.g. Yannis Hamilakis, Archaeology and the senses: human experience,
memory, and affect INST ARCH DAG 14 HAM (noting the constructive review by
Felipe Rojas online at http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/2503)
After consideration of theory, use the course readings to identify methods and casestudies for developing the debate in the context of archaeology and the museum.
2. “our workmen were our most experienced archaeologists”: discuss
“experience” as obstacle and opportunity in access to objects from the past.
The question starts from the admission of a gap between the inexperienced expert
and the experienced labourer without official formal training (Winlock 1926: 96). You
can introduce your position on both sides of this gap; for example, from the course
readings or discussions, you can reflect on the contrast between your own feelings
of knowledge and ignorance, or inclusion and exclusion. Use specific objects or
object groups as case-studies, to sharpen the focus of your discussion. Consider
different factors in the matrix of social identity e.g. age, class, ethnicity, gender and
language.
Coursework 2
submission deadline 18.3.2016
Options
1. “Make sure the object does not turn against itself in the museum”. Discuss
this imperative in relation to one museum object.
The essay title starts from the title of a chapter by Munir Fakher Eldin (see week 10
essential reading): assess his approach, and introduce other critiques of the
museum, beginning with non-European sources and contexts. Relate the object you
select for discussion to the dimensions considered during the course from Ibn
Khaldun.
2. Discuss possibilities for, and limits to, the “audibility of the object” in a
London museum setting.
You may choose to focus on broad collection-level (audibility as a dimension of a
whole museum or a single gallery-space) or single object or object-group. You can
contrast conditions in London with those in other places, or you can choose to focus
on London alone. Use the essential and further readings recommended for weeks 7
to 9 as a starting-point for expanding your essay reading-list.
We will discuss assignments in class: if you are unclear about the nature of an
assignment at any time, please discuss this with the Course Co-ordinator.
Students are not permitted to re-write and re-submit essays in order to try to improve
their marks. However, students may be permitted, in advance of the deadline for a
given assignment, to submit for comment a brief outline of the assignment. The
Course Co-ordinator is willing to discuss an outline of the student's approach to the
assignment, provided this is planned suitably in advance of the submission date.
Word-count
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY!
The following should not be included in the word-count: title page, contents pages,
lists of figure and tables, abstract, preface, acknowledgements, bibliography, lists of
references, captions and contents of tables and figures, appendices.
One essential transferable skill from university courses is the ability to develop a
structured argument within a set word-limit: accordingly, one of the criteria for
assessment includes keeping within the word-limit. For each of the two essays for
this course, the word-count range is 1,900-2,100. Penalties will be imposed only if
you exceed the upper figure in the range. There is no penalty for using fewer words
than the lower figure in the range: the lower figure is simply for your guidance to
indicate the sort of length that is expected.
According to strict UCL-wide regulations, a score of zero will be imposed if your
essay exceeds 10% above the specified maximum length, so your essay mark
will be reduced if the word-count is over 2100 words, and the mark will be 0 if
the word-count is over 2210 words = 10% beyond the upper figure in the range.
For the precise wording of UCL regulation 3.1.7 Penalties for Over-length
Coursework see the Appendix
Please ask the Course Co-ordinator if uncertain about any of these
regulations.
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SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS
Teaching schedule
Seminars will be held 14:00-16:00 on Fridays, in room 412. The Course Co-ordinator
will lead all seminars.
Syllabus
“The person who has gained the habit of a particular craft
is rarely able afterwards to master another”
Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddima, chapter 5, section 21
The course is oriented by Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddima chapter 5, sections 21-31. In
week 1, we will read through sections 21 to 23, and, in each of weeks 2 to 9 we read
the relevant section as listed in this handbook.
Week 1. Nile Sustenance: return of the Whole Eye
Ibn Khaldun 23 The craft of agriculture
Counterpoint: Teaching of Khety section 13 The field labourer
Accompanying reading: Egyptian letters on agriculture
The Letters of Heqanakht in E. Wente, Letters from Ancient Egypt, 1990
EGYPTOLOGY V 50 WEN
R. Bagnall, R. Cribiore, Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt 300 BC - AD 800,
2006, 346-351
Essential reading
Hillenbrand, M. Communitarianism, or, how to build East Asian theory. In
Postcolonial Studies 13.4, 2010, 317-334 ONLINE
Rapoport, Y. Invisible Peasants, Marauding Nomads: Taxation, Tribalism and Revolt
in Mamluk Egypt. In Mamluk Studies Review 8, 2004, 1-22 ONLINE see especially
pp.2-5 on contrast between badw and hadar, and pp.16-20 on historical implications
Rapoport, Y. Gu Yanwu and Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406): The Risks of Returning the
Gaze. In Fragments 1, 2011, 88-93 ONLINE
the second item is a response to M. Brown, Returning the Gaze: An Experiment in
Reviving Gu Yanwu (1613–1682), in the same volume
Whole Eye and Nile Flood
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Kitāb ʼal-ʼifādaẖ wa-ʼal-ʼiʻtibār fī ʼal-ʼumūr ʼal-mus͡hāhadaẖ
wa-ʼal-ḥawādit͡h ʼal-muʻāyanaẖ bi-ʼarḍ Miṣr, 1207, Book 2, Chapter 1, translation into
French by S. de Sacy as Relation de l’Egypte, Paris 1810, pp.329-340 ONLINE at
Google Books, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pyYVAAAAQAAJ&redir_esc=y
(full text)
Elbendary, A. The worst of times: crisis management and al-Shidda al-‘Uzma. In N.
Hanna (ed.), Money, land and trade : an economic history of the Muslim
Mediterranean, London 2002, pp.67-83 HISTORY 53 D HAN
Kemp, B. Outlying temples at Amarna. In Amarna Reports VI. London 1995, 411-461
EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 45 KEM
Quack, J. The animals of the desert and the return of the goddess. In H. Riemer et
al. (eds.), Desert animals in the eastern Sahara: Status, economic significance, and
cultural reflection in antiquity. Cologne 2009, 341-361 EGYPTOLOGY A 6 RIE
Roberts, A. Hathor Rising. The serpent power of ancient Egypt, Totnes 1995, pp.816, notes on p.173 EGYPTOLOGY R 5 ROB
Agriculture in Egypt before AD1900
Bowman, A. (ed.). Agriculture in Egypt: from Pharaonic to modern times. Oxford
1999 EGYPTOLOGY S 5 BOW
Murray, M.-A., Cereal production and processing. In P. Nicholson, I. Shaw (eds.),
Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, Cambridge 2000, 505-537 useful
diagrams of agricultural year in conditions of Egyptian Nile Valley before 1900
Winlock, H. Monastery of Epiphanius I, The archaeological material. New York 1926,
61-67 EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 50 WIN
Monolithic word-world: European questions on ‘culture’
Crehan, K. Gramsci, Culture and anthropology, London 2002, chapter 3.
Anthropology and Culture: some assumptions, pp.36-67 SCIENCE LIBRARY
ANTHROPOLOGY D 12 CRE and SSEES LIBRARY Misc.XVIII GRA CRE
Fabian, J. Memory against Culture: arguments and reminders, Durham NC 2007,
chapter 8 Memory and Counter-memory, pp.92-105 SCIENCE LIBRARY
ANTHROPOLOGY D 6 FAB
Lucas, G. Critical approaches to fieldwork, New York, 2001, chapter 4 The measure
of culture, pp.107-145. INST ARCH AH LUC
Week 2. Time and Monument
Ibn Khaldun 24 The craft of architecture
Counterpoint: Teaching of Khety section 9 The small potter
Accompanying reading: a line from a builder on his building
Winlock, H. Monastery of Epiphanius I, The archaeological material. New York 1926,
p.27, cf. pp.51-54 EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 50 WIN
Essential reading
Interviews with Konbaba Tennepo, Boubacar Kouroumansé, Lassina Kouroumansé,
Salif Droufo, and Almamy Kouroumansé in Leiden, presented in the article by T.
Marchand, For the love of masonry: Djenné craftsmen in turbulent times, Journal of
African Cultural Studies, 26 (2014), 155-172 online at
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13696815.2013.859570
compare with their introduction on the web-page for the Smithsonian exhibition Mud
Masons of Mali http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/mud-masons/
Rabbat, N. Was al-Maqrizi’s Khitat a Khaldunian History? Der Islam 89 (2012), 118140. Read pp.118-123, which introduce the historian al-Maqrizi through his relation
to Ibn Khaldun, and pp.130-137 on how architectural history becomes a way to
address human life and time
Further reading
Building / builders - mud and stone
Arnold, D. Building in Egypt: pharaonic stone masonry. New York 1991
EGYPTOLOGY K 5 ARN
Behrens-Abouseif, D. Muhandis, Shad, Mu'allim - Note on the Building Craft in the
Mamluk Period, Der Islam 72 (1995), 293-309 ONLINE (for 1995 issue of the journal
Der Islam from UCL Library catalogue, use 2nd option = ProQuest PAO Periodicals:
the 1st option ProQuest Arts & Humanities starts at 2004)
Grabar, O., R. Holod. A tenth-century source for architecture. In Harvard Ukrainian
Studies Vol. 3/4, Part 1. Eucharisterion: Essays presented to Omeljan Pritsak on his
Sixtieth Birthday by his Colleagues and Students, 1979-1980, 310-319 ONLINE
Kemp, B. Soil (including mud-brick architecture). In P. Nicholson and I. Shaw (eds.),
Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, Cambridge 2000, pp.78-103
EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS S 5 NIC
LaViolette, A. Ethno-archaeology in Jenné, Mali: craft and status among smiths,
potters and masons, Oxford 2000 INST ARCH DCF Qto LAV
Reynolds, D. Arab Folklore. A handbook, Westport CT 2007, pp.183-186 COURSE
COPY
Spencer, J. Brick Architecture in Egypt, Warminster 1979 EGYPTOLOGY
QUARTOS K 5 SPE
Van der Spek, K., The modern neighbors of Tutankhamun: history, life, and work in
the villages of the Theban West Bank Cairo 2011, ch.6 Qurnawi foothills
architecture: footprint, form, and function, pp.157-169 EGYPTOLOGY B 20 VAN
Architecture as history: al-Maqrizi Khitat
Jarrar, S., Al-Maqrizi’s reinvention of Egyptian historiography through architectural
history. In D. Behrens-Abouseif (ed.), The Cairo Heritage. Essays in honour of Laila
Ali Ibrahim, Cairo 2000, 31-52 COURSE COPY
Rabbat, N. Mamluk history through architecture: monuments, culture and politics in
medieval Egypt and Syria. London 2010 ARCHITECTURE B 1:64 RAB
Problems with monuments:
Arrhenius, T. The Cult of Age in Mass-Society: Alois Riegl's Theory of Conservation.
In Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism 1,
2004, pp. 75-81 ONLINE
Aygen, Z. International Heritage and Historic Building Conservation: Saving the
World’s Past. New York 2013 ONLINE
Barrasi, S. The Modern Cult of Replicas: A Rieglian Analysis of Values in
Replication. Tate Papers 2007 online at http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/7325
Elias, J. Aisha's cushion : religious art, perception, and practice in Islam. Cambridge,
Mass. 2012 ART BC 10 ELI pp.160-174 on ‘ibra “awe” (pp.172-173 on the pyramids)
Haarmann, U. Regional sentiment in medieval Islamic Egypt. Bulletin of
the School of Oriental and African Studies, 43 (1980), pp 55-66 online at
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0041977X00110535
Muwaylihi, M. What Isa ibn Hisham told us, or, A Period of Time, vol.2, [1907]
Arabic-English 2002 edition, pp.136-139 a discussion on the pyramids, online at
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15zc896
Time in anthropology and Egyptology:
Assmann, J. The search for God in ancient Egypt. Ithaca 2001, pp.68-80, sections
3.3 Natura loquitur, 3.4 Cosmos and Time EGYPTOLOGY R 5 ASS
Fabian, J. Time and the other: how anthropology makes its object. New York 1983/
2002 (2nd edition 2002 new foreword but not revised) ANTHROPOLOGY D 9 FAB
Lucas, G. The archaeology of time. London, 2005 INST ARCH AH LUC
Week 3. Seeing Beauties – visual, material, intangible
Ibn Khaldun 25 The craft of carpentry
Counterpoint: Teaching of Khety section 13 The carpenter
Accompanying reading: carpenters on carpentry
Business letters of Amennakht, carpenter of the king in E. Wente, Letters from
Ancient Egypt, 1990 EGYPTOLOGY V 50 WEN
Essential reading
Abiodun. R. Yoruba Art and Language: seeking the African in African art, Cambridge
2014, pp.245-283 ch.8 Yoruba Aesthetics see in particular quotations from wood
sculptor Lamidi Fakeje ONLINE
Argenti, N. Follow the Wood: carving and political cosmology in Oku, Cameroon. In
T. Förster, and S. Kasfir, African Art and Agency in the Workshop, Bloomington
2013, pp.65-90 ONLINE
Further reading
Eye of the beholders:
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi on perfection of ancient sculpting, in Colla, E. Conflicted
antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity. Durham N.C. 2007,
pp.86-90 EGYPTOLOGY A 8 COL
Blier, S. Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c.1300.
Cambridge 2015, pp.155-201 ch.3 If looks could kill: aesthetics and political
expression ONLINE and INST ARCH DCG PRE
Colla, E. Conflicted antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity.
Durham N.C. 2007, pp.72-91 EGYPTOLOGY A 8 COL (3 copies)
Elias, J. Aisha’s Cushion. Religious art, perception and practice in Islam, Cambridge
Mass. 2012 ART BC 10 ELI
Van der Spek, K., Faked Antikas and “Modern Antiques”: The production and
marketing of tourist art in the Theban Necropolis. In Journal of Social Archaeology 8,
2008, pp.163-189 ONLINE
Production place / person
Förster, T. and S. Kasfir, African Art and Agency in the Workshop, Bloomington
2013, pp.1-23. Introduction. Rethinking the Workshop: Work and Agency in African
Art
Okeke-Agulu, C Rethinking Mbari Mbayo: Osogbo Workshops in the 1960s, Nigeria.
In T. Förster, and S. Kasfir, African Art and Agency in the Workshop, Bloomington
2013, pp.154-179 ONLINE
Gale, R., P. Gasson, N. Hepper, G. Killen, Wood. In P. Nicholson and I. Shaw (eds.),
Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, Cambridge 2000, pp.334-371
EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS S 5 NIC
Operational chains of wood-sculpting: tangible and intangible
Ashton, S.-A. Origins of the Afro-comb. Cambridge, 2011
Killen, G. Ancient Egyptian furniture I-II. Warminster, 1980-1984 EGYPTOLOGY
QUARTOS M 20 KIL
Sillar, B., M. Tite, The challenge of ‘technological choices’ for material science
approaches. In Archaeometry 42, 2000, pp.2-20 ONLINE note diagram p.6
Treves, T. Robert Moody ‘Johanaan’: summary. Tate web-page, 2000 ONLINE at
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moody-johanaan-t06591 The elm sculpture
‘Johanaan’ is on display at Tate Britain
Week 4. Living Things: animate/inanimate spectrum
Ibn Khaldun 26 The craft of weaving and tailoring
Counterpoint: Teaching of Khety section 14 The mat weaver
Accompanying reading: weavers on weaving
Quotations from weavers cited by K. M'Closkey, Toward an understanding of Navajo
aesthetics, in Swept under the rug. A hidden history of Navajo weaving. Albuquerque
2002, pp. 208-233 SCIENCE LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY TG 83 MCL
Essential reading
Fitzgerald, D. review of P. Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, 2013, on
Somatosphere.net ONLINE at http://somatosphere.net/2013/10/philippe-descolasbeyond-nature-and-culture.html
Winlock, H. Monastery of Epiphanius I, The archaeological material. New York 1926,
pp.65-75 EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 50 WIN
Further reading
Weaving values, textile operational chains
Bender Jørgensen, L. The introduction of sails to Scandinavia: Raw materials, labour
and land. In R. Berge, M. E. Jasinski, K. Sognnes (eds.), N-TAG TEN. Proceedings
of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Oxford, 2012, pp. 173-181 INST
ARCH DAM 100 Qto BER
Dilley, R. Dreams, inspiration and craftwork among Tukolor weavers. In M. Jȩdrej, R.
Shaw (eds.), Dreaming, religion, and society in Africa. Leiden 1992
ANTHROPOLOGY Q 18 JED
Franquemont, C. and E. Franquemont, Learning to weave in Chinchero. In Textile
Museum Journal 26 (1987), pp.55-78 ONLINE
Granger-Taylor, H. Textile-production and clothing. Digital Egypt for Universities UCL
website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt//textil/index2.html
Mueller, M. Helen's Hands: weaving for Kleos in the Odyssey. In Helios 37 (2010), 121 ONLINE
Pritchard, F. Clothing culture: dress in Egypt in the first millennium AD. Clothing from
Egypt in the collection of the Whitworth Art Gallery, the University of Manchester.
Manchester 2006. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS M 20 WHI
Wendrich, W. Entangled, connected or protected? The power of knots and knotting
in ancient Egypt. In K. Szpakowska, (ed.),Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams
and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt, Swansea, 2006, pp.243-269 EGYPTOLOGY B 20
SZP
Wendrich, W. The world according to basketry: an ethno-archaeological
interpretation of basketry production in Egypt. Leiden 1999, especially pp.16-21 on
ethnoarchaeology, pp.175-106 chapter 10 Basketry from Amarna and Middle Egypt,
and pp.207-248 chapter 11 Basketry from Qasr Ibrim and New Nubia INST ARCH
KK WEN
Human-animal cultural ecologies
Watts, C. (ed.), Relational archaeologies: humans, animals, things. New York, 2013
INST ARCH AH WAT
Wengrow, D. The origins of monsters: image and cognition in the first age of
mechanical reproduction. Princeton, 2014 INST ARCH BC 300 WEN
Week 5. Birth in an Egyptian Village
Ibn Khaldun 27 The craft of midwifery
Accompanying reading:
Midwives in action - birth scene from a tale of deities and kings (composed c.19001600 BC)
Accompanying image: statue of the nurse Satsneferu, 1800 BC
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/544176
Essential reading
Blier, S. The path of the leopard: motherhood and majesty in early Danhomè. In
Journal of African History 36 (1995), pp.391-417 ONLINE
Morsy, S. Childbirth in an Egyptian village. In M. Kay (ed.), Anthropology of Human
Birth, Philadelphia, 1982, pp.147-174 SCIENCE LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY D90
KAY
Further reading
Birthing practices in Egyptian pasts
Draycott, J. Approaches to healing in Roman Egypt. Oxford 2012 EGYPTOLOGY
QUARTOS S5 DRA
Hansen, N. Continuity and change of Reproductive Beliefs and Practices in Egypt
from Ancient to Modern Times. Chicago 1999 PhD. Online summary at
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/research-archives-library/dissertations/dissertationproposals/continuity-and-change#III including methodology and sources
Roth, A. and C. Roehrig Magical bricks and the bricks of birth. Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 88, 2002, pp.121-139 INST ARCH PERS and ONLINE
Töpfer, S. The physical activity of parturition in ancient Egypt: textual and
epigraphical sources. Dynamis 34, 2014, pp.317-335 ONLINE at
http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/viewFile/280698/368380
Wegner, J. A Decorated Birth-Brick from South Abydos: New Evidence on Childbirth
and Birth Magic in the Middle Kingdom. In D. Silverman, W. Simpson, and J. Wegner
(eds.) Archaism and Innovation: Studies in the Culture of Middle Kingdom Egypt,
Philadelphia, 2009, pp. 447-496 EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS B 20 SIL
Comparative history and anthropology
Argenti, N. Things of the ground: children’s medicine, motherhood and memory in
the Cameroon grassfields. In Africa 81, 2011, pp.269-294 ONLINE
Dasen, V. Naissance et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité. Fribourg 2004 MAIN
LIBRARY ANCIENT HISTORY A 76 DAS
Inhorn, M. Quest for conception: gender, infertility, and Egyptian medical traditions.
Philadelphia 1994, pp.49-77 ch.3 Past and present in theories of procreation
ONLINE through Google Books (complete chapter available at 12.1.2016: if not all
accessible at time of reading, please inform course co-ordinator)
Obermeyer, C. (ed.) Cultural perspectives on reproductive health. Oxford, 2001
SCIENCE LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY D90 OBE
Stol, M. Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: its Mediterranean setting, with a chapter by
F. Wigermann Groningen, 2000 MAIN LIBRARY ANCIENT HISTORY D 76 STO
Week 6. Healing: embracing - rejecting
Ibn Khaldun 28 The craft of medicine
Accompanying reading:
Prescriptions on ostraca 574 and 575 from the monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes,
AD 500-700
Essential reading
Millar, M. and S. Lane Ethno-ophthalmology in the Egyptian Delta: an historical
systems approach to ethnomedicine in the Middle East. In Social Science and
Medicine 26, 1988, pp.651–657 ONLINE
Abouzeid, A. Review of Naawal al Saadawy, A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of
Nawal El Saadawi and Walking Through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi,
in Gender and Development 17.3, Ageing (November 2009), pp. 537-540 ONLINE at
http://www.jstor.org/stable/27809256
Further reading
Healing practices in ancient contexts
Allen, J. The art of medicine in ancient Egypt, New York 2005 EGYPTOLOGY
QUARTOS S 5 ALL
Graf, F. How to Cope with a Difficult Life. A View of Ancient Magic. In P. Schäfer and
H. Kippenberg (eds.), Envisioning magic: a Princeton seminar and symposium,
Leiden 1997, pp.93-114 MAIN LIBRARY HEBREW W 510 SCH
Kousoulis, P. Spell III of the Metternich Stela: Magic, Religion and Medicine as a
Unity, in Göttinger Miszellen 190, 2002, pp.53-63 INST ARCH PERS
Ritner, R. The mechanics of ancient Egyptian magical practice, Chicago 1993
EGYPTOLOGY R 5 RIT
Healing practices in other contexts
Al-Jubah, B. Magic and Talismans: the Tawfik Canaan collection of Palestinian
amulets ONLINE at http://www.palestine-studies.org/jq/fulltext/77947
Anyinam, C. Ethnomedicine, sacred spaces, and ecosystem preservation and
conservation in Africa. In E. Kalipeni, P. Zeleza (eds.), Sacred Spaces and Public
Quarrels: African Cultural and Economic Landscapes, Trenton and Asmara 1999,
pp.127-146 SCIENCE LIBRARY GEOGRAPHY Q 44 KAL
Dasen, V. Healing images. Gems and medicine, in Oxford Journal of Archaeology
33, 2014 pp.177-191 ONLINE
Fahmy, K. Women, medicine and power in nineteenth-century Egypt. In L. Abu
Lughod (ed.), Remaking women: feminism and modernity in the Middle East.
Princeton 1998 ANTHROPOLOGY PA 23 ABU
Morsy, S. Health and illness as symbols of social differentiation in an Egyptian
village. In Anthropological Quarterly 53, 1980, pp.153-161 ONLINE
Morsy, S. Towards a political economy of health: A critical note on the medical
anthropology of the Middle East. In Social Science and Medicine 15, 1981, pp.159163 ONLINE
Xia Nai corpus of ancient Egyptian beads in the Petrie Museum ONLINE at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie/about/collections/Beads
Week 7. Hearing Things: sounds of objects
Ibn Khaldun 29 Calligraphy, the craft of writing
Accompanying reading:
The 41st muqamat of al-Hariri (al-Tanisiyya) inscribed in the mausoleum of Emir
Sunqur, Cairo, AD 1315-1321
Essential reading
Haines-Eitzen, K. The gendered palimpsest: women, writing, and representation in
early Christianity. Oxford 2012, pp.53-64 ch.3 Women’s literature? ONLINE and
ANCIENT HISTORY X 58 HAI
Further reading
Loud and silent objects
Taylor, J. Journey through the Afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the dead, London,
2011 EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS V 50 BOO
Keene, S. and F. Monti, Museums and silent objects: designing effective exhibitions.
Farnham 2013 INST ARCH ME 3 MON
Ancient Egyptian scripts, handwriting and inscription
Davies, W.V. Egyptian Hieroglyphs. London 1987 EGYPTOLOGY V 8 DAV
Leach, B. and J. Tait. Papyrus. In P. Nicholson and I. Shaw (eds.), Ancient Egyptian
Materials and Technology, Cambridge 2000, pp.227-253 EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS
S 5 NIC
Arabic manuscripts on Egyptian hieroglyphs
El-Daly, O. Egyptology: the missing millennium. Ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic
writings, London 2005, pp.57-73 “Medieval Arab attempts to decipher ancient
Egyptian scripts” EGYPTOLOGY A 8 ELD
From the “script of birds” cited by El-Daly from al-Idrisi, compare:
Attar, Farid al-Din The Conference of the Birds. [1177] English translation online at
http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D02602030%26ct%3D0
Part I. The Parliament of the Birds, and Part IV. Reception at the Royal Court
Producers of Arabic manuscripts
Déroche, F. Islamic Codicology: an introduction to study of manuscripts in Arabic
script, London, 2006, 103-157 Instruments and preparations used in book
production, and 185-204 Craftsmen and the making of the manuscript ONLINE
Words in and as material
Elias, J. Aisha’s Cushion. Religious art, perception and practice in Islam, Cambridge
Mass, pp.264-283, ch.10 Legibility, iconicity, and monumental writing 2012 ART BC
10 ELI
Piquette, K and Whitehouse, R, (eds.) Writing as Material Practice: Substance,
Surface and Medium. London, 2013 INST ARCH GC PIQ
Voloshinov, V. The word in life and the word in poetry. Section III. In P. Morris (ed.),
The Bakhtin reader: selected writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev and Voloshinov,
London, 1994, pp.161-174 “Discourse in life and discourse in art” MAIN LIBRARY
LITERATURE A 21 BAK
Questions of speech-communities
Bemile, S. Promotion of Ghanaian Languages and its Impact on National Unity, in C.
Lentz and P. Nugent (eds.), Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention, London,
2000, pp.204-225 SCIENCE LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY QH 316 LEN
MacEachern, S. Setting the boundaries: linguistics, ethnicity, colonialism, and
archaeology south of Lake Chad. In Terrell, J. Archaeology, Language, and History.
Essays on culture and ethnicity, Westport Conn. 2001, pp.79-101 SCIENCE
LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY C6 TER
‘Asabiyya
Dawood, N. Introduction. In N. Dawood, Abridged version of F. Rosenthal translation
of Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah. An Introduction to History. Princeton 2015
SCIENCE LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY PA 91 IBN
Khalidi, T. Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period. Cambridge 1994,
pp.222-231 on Ibn Khaldun, including pp.228-231 on ‘asabiyya ONLINE
Week 8. Frames of knowledge
Ibn Khaldun 30 The craft of book production
Essential reading
Atalay, S. Multivocality and indigenous archaeologies. In J. Habu, C. Fawcett, J.
Matsunaga (eds.), Evaluating multiple narratives: beyond nationalist, colonialist,
imperialist archaeologies, Dordrecht 2008, pp.29-44 ONLINE from
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-71825-5/page/1
Masry, A. Traditions of Archaeological Research in the Near East, World
Archaeology 13/2, 1981, pp. 222-239 ON-LINE
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Decolonising the Mind. The politics of language in African
literature, London 1986, pp.4-33, ch.1 The language of African literature MAIN
LIBRARY LITERATURE A 43 NGU
Further reading
Materials, forms and effects of the book in Egyptian pasts
The Tale of Setne, from a Roman Period Egyptian papyrus, in M. Lichtheim, Ancient
Egyptian Literature 3, Berkeley, 1980 EGYPTOLOGY V 20 LIC
Déroche, F. Islamic Codicology: an introduction to study of manuscripts in Arabic
script, London, 2006, 253-310 Bookbinding ONLINE
El-Daly, O. Egyptology: the missing millennium. Ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic
writings, London 2005, Glossary of Authors EGYPTOLOGY A 8 ELD
Hanna, N. In praise of books: a cultural history of Cairo's middle class, sixteenth to
the eighteenth century. Syracuse NY 2003 SOAS LIBRARY NE305.55 /912851
Hirschler, K. The written word in the medieval Arabic lands. A social and cultural
history of reading practices. Edinburgh, 2012, pp.11-31 SOAS LIBRARY NR418.4
/740697
Tait, J. and B. Leach. Papyrus. In P. Nicholson and I. Shaw (eds.), Ancient Egyptian
Materials and Technology, Cambridge 2000, pp. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS S 5 NIC
Comparative history and anthropology of knowledge
Bloch, M. How we think they think: anthropological approaches to cognition,
memory, and literacy. Boulder, 1998 SCIENCE LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY D 18
BLO
Burke, P. A Social History of Knowledge: from Gutenberg to Diderot. Cambridge,
2000 MAIN LIBRARY HISTORY 82 CU BUR
Fraser, R. Book history through postcolonial eyes: rewriting the script, New York
2008, pp.27-50 ch.2 Scripts and Manuscripts SCIENCE LIBRARY LIBRARIANSHIP
D 190:60 FRA
Knudsen, S. A comparative overview of academic discourse on indigenous
knowledge in the Middle East and Africa, in E. Boon and L. Hens (eds.) Indigenous
Knowledge Systems and Sustainable Developement: relevance for Africa (= Tribes
and Tribals Special Volume 1), 2007, pp.13-28 ON-LINE
Week 9. Song and dance: performing material
Ibn Khaldun 31 The craft of singing and music
Essential reading
Morris, E. Paddle dolls and performance. Journal of the American Research Center
in Egypt 47, 2011, pp.71-103 INST ARCH PERS
Further reading
Arnold, D. 2008. Egyptian Art - a performing art? In S. D'Auria (ed.), Servant of Mut:
Studies in Honor of Richard A. Fazzini, Leiden and Boston:1-18 EGYPTOLOGY
QUARTOS M 6 DAU
Assmann, J. Death and Salvation in ancient Egypt, Ithaca, 2005, pp.237-247 section
1 of Mortuary liturgies and mortuary literature ISSUE DESK IOA ASS 2
DeMarrais, E. Introduction: archaeology of performance. In World Archaeology 46,
2014, pp.155-163 ONLINE
Danielson, V. The voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthūm, Arabic song, and Egyptian society
in the twentieth century. Chicago 1997 ONLINE
Gillam, R. Performance and drama in ancient Egypt. London, 2005 EGYPTOLOGY
V 50 GIL
Henein, N. Mari Girgis: village de Haute-Égypte. Cairo 1988 STORE 15-0908
includes songs by farmers with translations into French
Legrain, G. Louqsor sans les pharaons. Brussels and Paris 1914 online at
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62093349 songs by workers: pp.166-182
Chansons aux champs, pp.183-186 La meule, pp.189-200 Chansons dans les ruines
Leoni, S. Western Middle-East Music Imagery in the Face of Napoleon’s Enterprise
in Egypt: From mere Eurocentric exoticism, to very organized Orientalistic ears. In
International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 38 (2007), pp.171-196
Manniche, L. Ancient Egyptian musical instruments. Munich 1975 EGYPTOLOGY B
20 MAN
Mostafa, D. Popular Culture and Nationalism in Egypt: ‘Arab Lotfi and Egyptian
Popular Music. In Journal for Cultural Research 16:2-3 (2012), pp. 261-282
Napier, D. Masks, transformation, and paradox. Berkeley, 1980 SCIENCE LIBRARY
ANTHROPOLOGY D 115 NAP
Nzegwu, N. Art as time-lines: sacral representation in family spaces. In E. Kalipeni,
P. Zeleza (eds.), Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels: African Cultural and Economic
Landscapes, Trenton and Asmara 1999, pp.171-195 ONLINE at Google Books
Webb, R. Professional musicians in late antiquity. In S. Emerit (ed.). Le statut du
musicien dans la Méditerranée ancienne : Égypte, Mésopotamie, Grèce, Rome,
Cairo 2013, pp.279-296 MAIN LIBRARY ANC HISTORY QUARTOS A72
Week 10. Object links / chains
Essential reading
Fakher Eldin, M. A historian’s task: make sure the object does not turn against itself
in the museum. In B. Junod (ed.), Islamic art and the museum: approaches to art
and archeology of the Muslim world in the twenty-first century. London 2012, pp.135143 INST ARCH MG 7 JUN
Rosa, M. Theories of the South: limits and perspectives of an emergent movement in
social sciences. In Current Sociology 2014, 1-17 ONLINE
Further reading
Berliner, D. When the object of transmission is not an object: a West African
example (Guinea-Conakry). RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 51 (2007), pp. 87-97
Brown-Haysom, R. Review of C Paine, Religious objects in museums: private lives
and public duties, New York 2013, in Museum Worlds 2 (2014), 235-240 ONLINE
Butler, B. Heritage as Pharmakon and the Muses as Deconstruction: Problematising
Curative Museologies and Heritage Healing. In S. Dudley et al. (eds.), The Thing
about Museums: Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation, New
York, 2011, pp.354-471 INST ARCH ME 1 DUD and ONLINE
Butler, B. and M. Rowlands The Man who would be Moses. In R. Layton, S.
Shennan, P. Stone, P. (eds.), A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present,
London, 2006, pp.97-105 INST ARCH AG LAY
Ekpo, E. Conventional Museums and the Quest for Relevance in Africa, in History in
Africa 21, 1994, pp.325-337 ONLINE
Epshtein, M. Things and words: towards a lyrical museum. In A. Efimova and L.
Manovich (eds.), Tekstura: Russian essays on visual culture, Chicago, 1993, pp.152172 MAIN LIBRARY ANTHROPOLOGY NR 60 EFI
Konaré, A. Towards a new type of “ethnographic” museum in Africa. In Museum 35,
1983, pp.146–149 ONLINE
Naguib, S. Translating the ancient Egyptian worldview in museums. In R. Nyord, K.
Ryholt (eds), Lotus and laurel: studies on Egyptian language and religion in honour
of Paul John Frandsen, Copenhagen 2015, pp.233-240.
Schoske, C. Freud’s Egyptian digs. In W. Seipel (ed.), Ägyptomanie: europäische
Ägyptenimagination von der Antike bis heute, Vienna 2000, pp.105-113
EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS A 6 SEI
Shalem, A. Multivalent paradigms of interpretation and the aura or anima of the
object. In B. Junod (ed.), Islamic art and the museum: approaches to art and
archeology of the Muslim world in the twenty-first century. London 2012, pp.101-115
INST ARCH MG 7 JUN
Voloshinov, V. Critique of Freudianism. In P. Morris (ed.), The Bakhtin reader:
selected writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev and Voloshinov, London, 1994, pp.38-47
MAIN LIBRARY LITERATURE A 21 BAK
Whitley, J. Homer's entangled objects: narrative, agency and personhood in and out
of Iron Age texts. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23 (2013), pp 395-416 ONLINE
4 ONLINE RESOURCES
The full UCL Institute of Archaeology coursework guidelines are given here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/administration/students/handbook
Online museum collection databases with Egyptian material:
In addition to the Petrie Museum database, other large collections are increasingly
becoming accessible online, with varying proportion of photographs of objects.
Online museum databases change with research and editing, and so all information
must be checked wherever possible. Nevertheless, online collections provide a good
starting-point for finding illustrations of material, and for research into examples of a
particular object type or period.
Major illustrated databases with thousands of Egyptian antiquities include:
The British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx
The Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online
University of Pennsylvania Museum:
http://www.penn.museum/collections/
Highlights from a group of museums including the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/advanced.aspx?lan=E
Oriental Institute Chicago museum:
http://oi-idb.uchicago.edu/
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Libraries and other resources
In addition to the Library of the Institute of Archaeology, libraries in UCL with
holdings of particular relevance to this degree are:
Main Library (Ancient History, Art, Classics, History)
Science Library (Anthropology, Geography)
Other accessible libraries in the vicinity of UCL which have holdings relevant to this
course include:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/
Warburg Institute, University of London http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
British Library (including Manuscripts) http://www.bl.uk/ - please note that this
resource is primarily for doctoral students, but may be of help for details of more
advanced research in some coursework or MA dissertations
Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London EC1 (for Society members:
for more information see http://www.ees.ac.uk/)
Beside the Petrie Museum at UCL, and the British Museum, several London
museums hold material particularly relevant to this course:
Horniman Museum (Africa Gallery) http://www.horniman.ac.uk/
Victoria and Albert Museum (notably the Middle East, Jewellery, Glass, Ceramics
and Textiles displays) http://www.vam.ac.uk/
A visit is also recommended to the British Library public gallery (papyri, codices)
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/permgall/index.html
Information for intercollegiate and interdepartmental students
Students enrolled in Departments outside the Institute should obtain the Institute’s
coursework guidelines from Judy Medrington (email j.medrington@ucl.ac.uk), which
will also be available on the IoA website.
Appendix
Institute of Archaelogy coursework procedures:
General policies and procedures concerning courses and coursework, including
submission procedures, assessment criteria, and general resources, are available in
your Degree Handbook and on the following website:
http://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/archadmin It is essential that you read and comply with
these. Note that some of the policies and procedures will be different depending on
your status (e.g. undergraduate, postgraduate taught, affiliate, graduate diploma,
intercollegiate, interdepartmental). If in doubt, please consult your course coordinator.
Granting of Extensions:
New UCL-wide regulations with regard to the granting of extensions for coursework
have been introduced with effect from the 2015-16 session. Full details are available
at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/academic-manual/c4/extenuating-circumstances/
Note that Course Coordinators are no longer permitted to grant extensions. All
requests for extensions must be submitted on a new UCL form, together with
supporting documentation, via Judy Medrington’s office and will then be referred on
for consideration. Please be aware that the grounds that are now acceptable are
limited. Those with long-term difficulties should contact UCL Student Disability
Services to make special arrangements.