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2022

Presentation

Ancient African Queens: New Perspectives on Black History

See our panel discuss how reassessing 19th and 20th century colonial attitudes can bring new perspectives to fascinating aspects of ancient Egyptian culture and its place in African history. In the 19th and 20th centuries European and American Egyptologists appropriated ancient Egypt into an idea of ‘Western civilisation’ and set...

Maitland , Margaret ; Ashby, Solange
Queens, Nubia, Biases, Egypt, African, 19th century , Nubian, Egyptology, Pharaonic, Africa, African history, Black history, Colonial legacies, Colonial , Material culture, Queen, 20th century, Nubian culture, Qurna, and Qurna burial
Conference paper (unpublished)

Bodies of power, bodies of chaos: Occupational stereotyping of disability in Middle Kingdom Egypt

This conference brings together an international team of scholars in a collaborative effort to investigate historical bodies in relations of comparisons and negotiations, to engage in dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries. Participants were asked to explore how four specific concepts – historical bodies, relations, comparisons and negotiations – can be useful...

Maitland , Margaret
Middle Kingdom Egypt, Egypt, Disability , Egyptology, Body, and Stereotyping