“Kinship Terminology in the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts” Seminar
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The BA Writing and Scripts Center holds on Sunday, 15 September 2013, a seminar entitled “Kinship Terminology in the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts” by Dr. Marcelo Campagno, Professor of Ancient History and Egyptology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This Seminar will focus on the kinship relations that appear in the Pyramid Texts, trying to establish their importance inside the corpus of texts as well as in the Old Kingdom Egyptian society. The relevance of kinship can be seen in three domains: firstly, in the peasantry, since kinship remains central to the social life of peasant communities; secondly, in the state elite, which exerts the monopoly of coercion outwards, but it is internally organized in terms of kinship, and thirdly, in the divine sphere, which is usually modelled from the same principles of social organization –including kinship principles– that operates in human society.
The Pyramid Texts is the oldest surviving corpus of long written texts, dating back to the Late Old Kingdom.
The Seminar is held at 1:00 pm at the BA Main Library Auditorium, and is open for public.