Patronage and Other Logics of Social organization in Ancient Egypt during the IIIrd Millennium BCE (original) (raw)

Artículo

Fecha de publicación: 09/2014

Editorial: Brill Academic Publishers

Revista: Journal of Egyptian History

ISSN: 1874-1657

Idioma: Inglés

Tipo de recurso: Artículo publicado

Resumen

Several years ago, an insightful analysis by Jan Assmann demonstrated the existence of patronage practices in Ancient Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. Does this indicate a change in social structure, as the author suggested, or does it instead denote a change in the way such practices are referred to in the available sources? In order to consider this question, this article examines the evidence of patronage during that period, and then tries to analyze possible precedents, reflecting on the role that patronage could have had from the earliest moments of state structuration in the Nile Valley.