Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures

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Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others. Yet, particularly as Egypt undergoes a contested process of political redefinition, how do we write these histories, and what (or who) are they for? This volume addresses a variety of important themes, the historical involvement of Egyptology with the political sphere, the manner in which the discipline stakes out its professional territory, the ways in which practitioners represent Egyptological knowledge, and the relationship of this knowledge to the public sphere. Histories of Egyptology provides the basis to understand how Egyptologists constructed their discipline. Yet the volume also demonstrates how they construct ancient Egypt, and how that construction interacts with much wider concerns: of society, and of the making of the modern world. Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures Contents Figures Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration 1 Introduction: Thinking about Histories of Egyptology CLAIMING EGYPTOLOGY? HISTORICAL TRADING ZONES HISTORIES OF EGYPTOLOGY AND RECENT POLITICAL CHANGE IN EGYPT BIBLIOGRAPHY Part I: The Creation and Isolation of an Academic Discipline BIBLIOGRAPHY 2 The Object of Study: Egyptology, Archaeology, and Anthropology at Oxford, 1860–1960 THE UNIVERSITY SETTING: 1901–1930 SHIFTING FIELDS OF PRACTICE: 1931–1960 CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 3 The Anglo-Saxon Branch of the Berlin School: The Interwar Correspondence of Adolf Erman and Alan Gardiner and the Loss of the German Concession at Amarna JOHANN PETER ADOLF ERMAN (1854–1937) SIR ALAN HENDERSON GARDINER (1879–1963) ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS WITHIN EGYPTOLOGY THE GERMAN CONCESSION AT AMARNA AND WORLD WAR I POSTWAR CONFLICT A CHANGE IN TONE CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 4 The Cursed Discipline? The Peculiarities of Egyptology at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century “ETERNAL EGYPT”: THE CREATION AND ENDURANCE OF A MYTH THE CONSTRUCTION OF EGYPTOLOGY AS A PECULIAR SCIENTIFIC FIELD LOOKING TO THE FUTURE NOTE BIBLIOGRAPHY 5 Interdisciplinary Measures: Beyond Disciplinary Histories of Egyptology “A PROLIFIC BRANCH OF THE GREAT SCIENCE OF ANTHROPOLOGY”? ANGLO-BERLINERS EGYPTOLOGICAL INVERSIONS NOTES Part II: Knowledge in the Making BIBLIOGRAPHY 6 Beyond Travelers' Accounts and Reproductions: Unpublished Nineteenth-Century Works as Histories of Egyptology FRÉDÉRIC CAILLIAUD, 1787–1869 CAILLIAUD’S ARTS AND CRAFTS LANE’S DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT SALT’S MEMOIR ON PYRAMIDS AND SPHINX HEKEKYAN’S PAPERS DISCUSSION OF CASE STUDIES AND ARTS AND CRAFTS CONCLUSION NOTE BIBLIOGRAPHY 7 Studies in Esoteric Syntax: The Enigmatic Friendship of Aleister Crowley and Battiscombe Gunn GUNN AND BRITISH ESOTERICISM GUNN IN CROWLEY’S DIARIES AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 8 Margaret Alice Murray and Archaeological Training in the Classroom: Preparing "Petrie's Pups" MARGARET MURRAY AND PETRIE’S PUPS MURRAY’S GANG CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 Discussing Knowledge in the Making THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE ANDREW BEDNARSKI: “BEYOND TRAVELERS’ ACCOUNTS AND REPRODUCTIONS” KATHLEEN L. SHEPPARD: “MARGARET ALICE MURRAY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRAINING IN THE CLASSROOM” STEVE VINSON AND JANET GUNN: “STUDIES IN ESOTERIC SYNTAX” BIBLIOGRAPHY Part III: Colonial Mediations, Postcolonial Responses BIBLIOGRAPHY 10 On Archaeological Labor in Modern Egypt EGYPTOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE MODERN WORLD ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAʾῙS -SYSTEM IN EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, C. 1800–1895 AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INDUSTRY IN QIFT, C. 1895–1920 CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 Remembering and Forgetting Tutankhamun: Imperial and National Rhythms of Archaeology, 1922–1972 RHYTHMS OF MEMORY AND FORGETTING OWNERSHIP OF THE NEWS AND THE FIND STRIKE, LAWSUIT, AND STALEMATE TUT GOES TO WEMBLEY: THE BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION FRENCH AND AMERICAN THREADS OF MEMORY CLIMAX AND TAPERING OFF FORGETTING TUTANKHAMUN THE RETURN OF TUTANKHAMUN PARIS BEFORE LONDON COMING HOME? TUTANKHAMUN AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 12 The State of the Archive: Manipulating Memory in Modern Egypt and the Writing of Egyptological Histories ʿABDIN AND ITS DISCONTENTS HISTORIES OF EGYPTOLOGY? FURTHER ISSUES CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY 13 Histories of Egyptology in Egypt: Some Thoughts ARTIFACTUAL AND MONUMENTAL HISTORIES EGYPTOLOGY AND THE EGYPTIANS ANCIENTS AND MODERNS CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY Part IV: Representing Knowledge BIBLIOGRAPHY 14 Thomas "Mummy" Pettigrew and the Study of Egypt in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain EARLY INTEREST IN MUMMIES CONVERSAZIONES UNROLLING MUMMIES EGYPTOPHILIC COLLEAGUES THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA ÆGYPTIACA ASSOCIATIONS THE DUKE OF HAMILTON DISCUSSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 15 Repeating Death: The High Priest Character in Mummy Horror Films FROM PAGE TO SCREEN BECKONING DEATH EXPELLING SEX CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 16 What's in a Face? Mummy Portrait Panels and Identity in Museum Display DISCOVERY AND EARLY DISPLAY DEFINING THE FACE THE MODERN DISPLAY OF ANCIENT FACES HELLENIC IDENTITY ON DISPLAY TODAY CONCLUSION NOTE BIBLIOGRAPHY 17 Legacies of Engagement: The Multiple Manifestations of Ancient Egypt in Public Discourse THE EVOLUTION OF EGYPTOMANIA STUDIES THE MANY MEANINGS OF MUMMY PORTRAIT PANELS MUMMY UNWRAPPINGS AND DISCIPLINE BUILDING CRUCIAL CHARACTERS IN THE CINEMATIC INCARNATION OF ANCIENT EGYPT VISUAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH ANCIENT EGYPT CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY Postscript 18 The Old and New Egyptian Museums: Between Imperialists, Nationalists, and Tourists A MODERN MUSEUM FOR AN ANCIENT NATION? A SECURE MUSEUM FOR WHOM? TOWARD A NEW MISSION FOR THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM CONCLUSION NOTE BIBLIOGRAPHY Contributors Index