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