Beyond Egyptomania

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Beyond Egyptomania is written by Miguel John Versluys and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110565846 (ISBN 10) and 9783110565843 (ISBN 13).

The material and intellectual presence of Egypt is at the heart of Western culture, religion and art from Antiquity to the present. This volume aims to provide a long term and interdisciplinary perspective on Egypt and its mnemohistory, taking theories on objects and their agency as its main point of departure. The central questions the book addresses are why, from the first millennium BC onwards, things and concepts Egyptian are to be found in such a great variety of places throughout European history and how we can account for their enduring impact over time. By taking a radically object-oriented perspective on this question, this book is also a major contribution to current debates on the agency of artefacts across archaeology, anthropology and art history.