Ingelore Hafemann

Dienstverflichtung im alten Ägypten waehrend des Alten und Mittleren Reiches (IBAES XII)

In this book the author examines the corvee labour in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt. Titles, institutions and words used for different categories of the working population are analyzed in context. In the Old Kingdom, the Egyptian king had divine status; for this period there are no signs that people were forced to work. For the Middle Kingdom, harsh punishments for people fleeing state labour are attested, indicating a change in the Egyptian state. German text

Die Arbeit behandelt die ökonomischen und administrativen Aspekte der staatlich-königlichen Dienstpflicht im Alten und Mittleren Reich. Schwerpunkt waren die öffentlichen Arbeiten, die der königlichen Machtdemonstration dienten und seit der Frühzeit an Hand von Titeln analysiert werden konnten. Deutlich zeigte sich, daß die Prinzen nicht den Nukleus der sich entwickelnden hohen Beamtenschaft darstellte. Die Ausweitung und Formierung dieses Wirtschaftssektors im Verlaufe des Alten Reiches bis zur immer differenzierteren und auch von Konflikten begleiteten Ausprägung im Mittleren Reich konnte an sehr heterogenem und quellenkritisch untersuchtem Materials umrissen werden. Durch systematische Fragestellungen an die verschiedenen Materialgruppen wurden die beteiligten Beamten und Institutionen, Arten, Ausmaß, Dauer und Organisation der zu leistenden Arbeiten sowie allen involvierten Personengruppen analysiert. Eine Prüfung der ägyptischen Bezeichnungen für Personengruppen, die der Dienstpflicht unterworfen waren, zeigte, dass sich für marxistische sozialökonomische Terminologien wie "Klasse" und "Schicht" keine Entsprechungen finden ließen. Vielmehr zeigten sich Termini verschiedener Ebenen, die entweder sozialen Rang oder spezielle ökonomische Unterstellungen abbildeten bzw. nur rein administrative termini technici waren.

A5, 248 pages, paperback; £25 - $ 50

ISBN 978-1906137113

Managing Egypt 's Cultural Heritage

Editors: Fekri A. Hassan, G. J. Tassie, Aloisia De Trafford, Lawrence Owens and Joris van Wetering

Contributors: Carolina Cardell-Fernández, Sabrina Carli, Aloisia De Trafford, Okasha El-Daly, Nora Ebeid, Niall P. Finneran, Tomomi Fushiya, Darren Glazier, Hany Hanna, Fekri A. Hassan, Nigel J. Hetherington, Salima Ikram, Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, Alistair Jones, Janet Johnstone, Saleh Lamei, Javier Ordóñez-García, Lawrence Stuart Owens, Clifford Price, Stephen Quirke, Amanda Sutherland, Michael Seymour, Geoffrey John Tassie, and Teri L. Tucker .

The archaeological record is a finite resource, which is easily destroyed without proper protection. There are an incredible number of sites and monuments everywhere in Egypt , as well as the countless artefacts in museums and storerooms, requiring constant monitoring, protection and maintenance. 

Managing Egypt's Cultural Heritage is the first volume in a series of Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) discourses; this ground-breaking book is also the first academic collection of papers dedicated to the practice of CHM in Egypt . The papers in this volume are written by specialists in their fields whose expertise cover many areas of cultural heritage management, from the theoretical to the practical, tangible to intangible heritage, from cutting edge technology to simple conservation measures. The periods covered range from the Predynastic to the Coptic and Islamic periods. This volume is an invaluable addition to the library of heritage managers, conservators, archaeologists, lecturers, anyone interested in preserving Egypt 's cultural and natural heritage.

ISBN 978-1906137144

A4, 311 pages; £35

Martin Fitzenreiter (editor)

Das Ereignis, Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Vorfall und Struktur (IBAES X)

papers of a workshop on history, held in Berlin, in October 2008. There are three main chapters. "History between construct, medium and evidence" discusses what 'history' means in the sense of a historical narrative and how it is transferred to us. History is defined as a construct, coined by specific medial patterns and continually transformed over time in the shape of an archaeological record. The second chapter, "History between event, condition and structure" deals with 'history' as epistemological category: how 'events' and, from this, 'history' are made. 'Events' evolve out of certain 'incidents' by 'experiencing' them as something extraordinary. 'History' is shaped by the logical combination of such 'events' targeting a specific objective. The final section, "Archaeology of history" summarizes perspectives on the practical historiography of ancient civilisations. It is stressed that the archaeological record is hyper-complex on the one hand, but by no means universal on the other: it bears practically infinite potential for historiographical interpretation, but at the same time always remains fragmentary. Papers mainly in German, with some English contributions

A4, 330 pages, ISBN 978-1-906137-13-7

UK £35 - US $ 70

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