Towards a History of Egyptology

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Summary	Ancient Egypt has for centuries occupied a prominent place in popular imaginations and scholarly research agendas. While our knowledge of the long-dead civilization of the pharaohs has vastly increased and improved over the past two hundred years, our understanding of what actually constitutes what we call ‘Egyptology’ remains elusive. Based upon research presented in 2018 at the 8th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science in London, this volume comprises a wide range of reflections by an international, interdisciplinary panel of scholars on matters central to the history of Egyptology. Their papers explore various approaches to the study of Egyptology’s history; national, particularly including Egyptian perspectives on Egyptology; and the interdependencies of scholarship and politics. This unique book represents an important step in the evolution of a newly developing dialogue: one that sees the study of ancient Egypt brought more closely in line with modern debates on the construction of knowledge, disciplinary formation, and the importance of ancient history to modern societies – and also within them, as a means of validating aspects of the present.
Table of Contents	Foreword by the Editors Concepts, Models and Approaches to the History of Egyptology Andrew Bednarski: Building a Disciplinary History: the challenge of Egyptology Hana Navratilova: Limits of hermeneutics of suspicion - life-writing in history of Egyptology The Egyptian Perspective Fayza Haikal / Amr Omar: Egyptology in Egypt: The Founding Institutions Maximilian Georg: The Living Surrounding the Dead: European Archaeologists in Egypt and Their Relations with the Local Inhabitants, 1798–1898 ‘National’ Histories of Egyptology Thais Rocha da Silva: Brazilian Egyptology: reassessing colonialism and exploring limits Aidan Dodson: Egyptology: a British Model? Alexander Loktionov: A Revolution in Egyptology, or an Egyptology of the Revolution? Changing perspectives on Ancient Egypt in Russia Egyptology and Politics Marleen De Meyer et al.: Pyramids and Progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of Egyptology, 1830–1952 Katalin Kóthay: Early Hungarian Egyptology in the context of patriotism and European identity Thomas L.Gertzen: “Germanic” Egyptology? – Scholarship and politics as resources for each other and their alleged binary relationship Ancient Egypt on Display Rosalind Janssen: Conversing with Eugenic Object Stories at UCL Hana Navratilova / Radek Podhorný: Displaying Egypt behind the Iron Curtain: Czechoslovakia 1949–1989 Index

Summary

Ancient Egypt has for centuries occupied a prominent place in popular imaginations and scholarly research agendas. While our knowledge of the long-dead civilization of the pharaohs has vastly increased and improved over the past two hundred years, our understanding of what actually constitutes what we call ‘Egyptology’ remains elusive. Based upon research presented in 2018 at the 8th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science in London, this volume comprises a wide range of reflections by an international, interdisciplinary panel of scholars on matters central to the history of Egyptology. Their papers explore various approaches to the study of Egyptology’s history; national, particularly including Egyptian perspectives on Egyptology; and the interdependencies of scholarship and politics. This unique book represents an important step in the evolution of a newly developing dialogue: one that sees the study of ancient Egypt brought more closely in line with modern debates on the construction of knowledge, disciplinary formation, and the importance of ancient history to modern societies – and also within them, as a means of validating aspects of the present.

Table of Contents

Foreword by the Editors

Concepts, Models and Approaches to the History of Egyptology

Andrew Bednarski: Building a Disciplinary History: the challenge of Egyptology

Hana Navratilova: Limits of hermeneutics of suspicion - life-writing in history of Egyptology

The Egyptian Perspective

Fayza Haikal / Amr Omar: Egyptology in Egypt: The Founding Institutions

Maximilian Georg: The Living Surrounding the Dead: European Archaeologists in Egypt and Their Relations with the Local Inhabitants, 1798–1898

‘National’ Histories of Egyptology

Thais Rocha da Silva: Brazilian Egyptology: reassessing colonialism and exploring limits

Aidan Dodson: Egyptology: a British Model?

Alexander Loktionov: A Revolution in Egyptology, or an Egyptology of the Revolution? Changing perspectives on Ancient Egypt in Russia

Egyptology and Politics

Marleen De Meyer et al.: Pyramids and Progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of Egyptology, 1830–1952

Katalin Kóthay: Early Hungarian Egyptology in the context of patriotism and European identity

Thomas L.Gertzen: “Germanic” Egyptology? – Scholarship and politics as resources for each other and their alleged binary relationship

Ancient Egypt on Display

Rosalind Janssen: Conversing with Eugenic Object Stories at UCL

Hana Navratilova / Radek Podhorný: Displaying Egypt behind the Iron Curtain: Czechoslovakia 1949–1989

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