High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt

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).

• Preface List of Figures Conventions Chronological Table Map 1 Contexts and Representations of High Culture 2 Egypt as a Physical, Social and Represented Landscape 3 A Planned World? The Early City, Patterns and Meanings of Settlement 4 Celebration in teh Landscape: A Hunting Party under Amenemhat II 5 Elite Experience References Index