Disability in ancient Egypt and Egyptology all our yesterdays / edited by Alexandra F. Morris and Hannah Vogel.
| Other author | Morris, Alexandra F. |
| Other author | Vogel, Hannah |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | All our yesterdays |
| Series | Routledge studies in Ancient disabilities |
| Abstract | "This book explores disability across time and space--from 'ancient Egypt' as a culture to Egyptology as a contemporary field--to go beyond simply identifying disability, encouraging readers to thoughtfully consider the history of disabled people in ancient Egypt and Egyptology. Through a critical investigation, this volume reshapes often-overlooked narratives of disability within the discipline of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology. Chapters explore evidence of disability, the historiographical ways in which disability has been approached, and how disability histories are (mis)represented in various contemporary spaces. Coverage stretches across Egypt and Nubia from the Predynastic to the Roman periods, as well as receptions of these cultures and disability in museums. Its editors and many of its authors are disability community members who are experts in their respective professions, comprising an international authorship and including voices from typically underrepresented groups. Contributors range from early career researchers to senior scholars, as well as those working outside of and adjacent to academia. While focusing on ancient Egypt and Egyptology, this volume offers new ways to consider disability in the broadest possible sense. It uses terminology informed by the disability community and offers guidance for disability inclusivity in curatorial and pedagogical museum and university contexts. It prioritises disability as an essential area of research in ancient world studies, and platforms both ancient and modern disabled voices. The deep, detailed exploration into disability in the past and in our discipline offered by this book inspires readers to further explore and appreciate the infinite diversity of the human experience in all its infinite combinations. The first-book length treatment of the subject, Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology provides a much-needed resource for students and scholars of ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and disability in the ancient world. It is also suitable for researchers in Disability Studies, practitioners in broader ancient world studies, and museum and heritage professionals"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Disability studies: an introduction for Egyptology / Hannah Vogel -- Challenging the eugenic paradigm in Egyptology / Lucas Justinian -- The measure of a man: Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and the (pseudo)science of disability in Egyptology / Alexandra F. Morris, Kyle Lewis Jordan -- Grande morbidezza: the invention of Akhenaten's illness / Steven M. Stannish -- Jaroslav Cerny: working with disabilities in Egyptology, 1942-1970 / Hana Navratilova -- Overlooked but on display: disability and human remains in the British museum / Roisin Mackie -- Accessibility and disability representation in ancient Egyptian exhibits: considerations for planning a classroom field trip / Karen L Kobylarz -- What was the occupation of disabled people in ancient Egypt? / Samar Kamal -- People with spinal curvatures of the Nile Valley: presence, perception and solidarity from Naqada to the Middle Kingdom / Benedicte Lhoyer -- Defining the idealized body: a reexamination of depictions of dwarfism in the Old Kingdom / Emily Smith-Sangster -- Bes or the offense of physiognomy in Egyptology / Livia Bergerot -- Dwarfism in ancient Egypt/ Nubia: utilising the bioarchaeology fo care approach to investigate Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis / Katie M. Whitmore, Michele R. Buzon -- Talipes cavus in mummified Egyptian human remains / Michael R. Zimmerman -- Siptah's leg and other stories / Aidan Dodson -- And the children shall lead: Harpocrates, Harpocratis, and cerebral palsy / Alexandra F. Morris -- On deafness in ancient Egypt literary and para-literary texts / Ilaria Cariddi -- Impairments as biometric modalities in Graeco-Roman papryi, 241 BCE-299 CE / Ella Karev -- Disability in the Greek papyri from Roman Egypt: a public concern / Nicola Reggiani -- "Go away baldy": two cross-cultural tales of baldness / Rosalind Janssen -- Archaeology of genital mutilation: disabled masculinity of Libyan enemies in the Egyptian new kingdom / Uros Matic -- DisAbility, eunuchs, and the lived experience in Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt / Sonia R. Zakrzewski, Stephanie Evelyn-Wright and Scott D. Haddow. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Change to Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.d. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024028689 |
| ISBN | 9781040185483 ebook |
| ISBN | 9781003440369 ebk |
| ISBN | hbk |
| ISBN | pbk |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |