Janis Baines
Biographic Data
| ID | 90365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janis Baines |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janis |
| FAMILY NAME | Baines |
| SIGNATURE | BAINES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4543-9909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1894 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing theories, by divergent ideas regarding both predictor and outcomes variables, and by differences of opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse of information d…
Big Gods and big science: Further reflections on theory, data, and analysis
Our target article empirically tested the Big Gods Hypothesis which proposes that beliefs in moralizing supernatural punishment (MSP) contributed to the evolution of socio-political complexity (SPC) in world history. We tested this hypothesis using a suite of measures of MSP, SPC, and other potential evolutionary drivers coded in Seshat: Global History Databank. Our analyses indicate that intensity of warfare and productivity of agriculture were …
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: A review and “retake”
This Retake article presents a corrected and extended version of a Letter published in Nature (Whitehouse et al., 2019) which set out to test the Big Gods hypothesis proposing that beliefs in moralizing punitive deities drove the evolution of sociopolitical complexity in world history. The Letter was retracted by the authors in response to a critique by Beheim et al. (2021). Correction of errors in the coding and analysis of missing data to addre…
In Memoriam David Bourke O’Connor
Obituary for David Bourke O’Connor
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Reflections on How Ancient Egyptian Comparative History is Done: From Microhistory to Cliodynamics
This comparative volume of the Journal of Egyptian History is in the excellent spirit of an aside in a 2016 article of Norman Yoffee on studying ancient Egypt’s parallel civilization: “... I am of the school that believes that no one knows Mesopotamia who knows Mesopotamia only.”1 Contributors to this volume may substitute Egypt, China, Tenochtitlán or—for several of them—a whole range of polities or societies, for the Mesopotamia of Yoffee’s aph…
An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
New Era in the Study of Global History Is Born but It Needs to Be Nurtured
This article is a response to Slingerland et al. who criticize the quality of the data from Seshat: Global History Databank utilized in our Nature paper entitled “Complex Societies Precede Moralizing Gods throughout World History”. Their critique centres around the roles played by research assistants and experts in procuring and curating data, periodization structure, and so-called “data pasting” and “data filling”. We show that these criticisms …
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Retracted Article: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history
Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing theories, by divergent ideas regarding both predictor and outcomes variables, and by differences of opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse of information d…
Functions and Uses of Egyptian Myth
This article discusses functions and uses of myth in ancient Egypt as a contribution to comparative research. Applications of myth are reviewed in order to present a basic general typology of usages: from political, scholarly, ritual, and medical applications, through incorporation in images, to linguistic and literary exploitations. In its range of function and use, Egyptian myth is similar to that of other civilizations, except that written nar…
The Cambridge World History
From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal…
Ancient Egyptian kingship: Lectures in the year 2011-2012
The aim of this course was to review the study of Egyptian kingship as the central institution of society and cosmos, with a focus on how the king related to court institutions surrounding him, as well as how his role in relation to the gods was projected and is now interpreted. The presentation was partly chronological, with the first lecture considering origins and the last surveying the institution in the long term. The nearly four millennia f…
Egyptology and the Social Sciences: Thirty years on
Since the study of ancient Egypt began, Egyptology and social science have engaged with each other to very varying degrees, often with significant reservations on both sides. This partial detachment continues. Egyptology, however, stands to benefit from collaborating with social science both in terms of method and in relation to the wider intellectual world, while the near-absence of ancient Egypt from discussion of social forms in various discip…
Aesthetic culture and the emergence of writing in Egypt during Naqada IIIpar
Baines John. Aesthetic culture and the emergence of writing in Egypt during Naqada IIIpar. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°20, 2010. Archéo-Nil 1990-2010. 20 ans de recherches prédynastiques. pp. 134-149
Art figuratif et naissance de l’écriture dans l’Égypte de l’époque Naqada III
Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt
Schäfer, Heinrich
Ancient Egypt: Archaeology, epigraphy, and excavations
Esna
Dendara
Ancient Egypt: Regional art
Last Writing: Script Obsolescence in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica
By any measure, the creation and development of writing was a cybernetic advance with far-reaching consequences. It allowed writers to communicate with readers who were distant in time and space, extended the storage capacity of human knowledge, including information that ranged from mundane accounting to sacred narrative, bridged visual and auditory worlds by linking icons with meaningful sound, and offered an enduring means of displaying and ma…
Literacy and Ancient Egyptian Society
From its first occurrence around 3000 B.C., writing was integral to the self-definition of Egyptian culture, especially in terms of display where it was part of a system of pictorial representation. By 2600 continuous texts were produced and any linguistic matter could be written; new genres of text appeared in stages, literary texts in the Middle Kingdom and some additional types in the New Kingdom. Very few people were literate, all of them off…
Color Terminology and Color Classification: Ancient Egyptian Color Terminology and Polychromy
The ancient Egyptian language possesses 4 basic color terms; painting uses 7 and later 9 polychrome colors. These sets correspond to Stages Ilia, V, and VII (incomplete) of the Berlin and Kay encoding sequence for language, and support the theory of 11 "basic perceptual color categories." The categories are probably available only through progressive differentiation. The use of color in pictorial representation fits an "active" rather than a "res…
Restricted Knowledge, Hierarchy, and Decorum: Modern Perceptions and Ancient Institutions
Modern scholarly attitudes to the phenomenon of restricted knowledge in ancient Egypt have been affected by political and ideological issues of the present more strongly than have some other domains of the subject. It should be asked what its significance and position in ancient society and ideology was. From the Old Kingdom onward clear cases can be found of elite display of access to restricted knowledge coupled with concealment of its content.…
Communication and display: The integration of early Egyptian art and writing
Our contemporary world is literate, alphabetical, and controlled by texts. Written texts are formally more important than images, and the separation of words and pictures is sharp. When writing is pictographic, the distinction is not always so sharp, and in early civilizations both texts and pictures were rather scarce things. Here, the places of texts and images in Egypt, and their relative standing, are explored
Burial and the dead in ancient Egyptian society: Respect, formalism, neglect
Ancient Egypt offers a paradigm contrast between ideals of respectful care for the dead, on the one hand, and realities of medium- and long-term neglect, destruction and reuse on the other. Ideals are expressed in normative mortuary monuments and in texts; the archaeological record, together with relatively few skeptical texts, testifies to realities. Death was as socially riven as the realm of the living. Vast amounts were invested in royal and …
On the Status and Purposes of Ancient Egyptian Art
No term in the ancient Egyptian language corresponds neatly with Western usages of ‘art’, and Egyptologists have often argued that there is no such thing as ‘Egyptian art’. Yet aesthetically organized structures and artefacts constitute the majority of evidence from Egypt, a legacy created mainly for a small élite. The genres of these materials, all of which had functions additional to the purely aesthetic, are similar to those of many other cult…
Last Writing: Script Obsolescence in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica
By any measure, the creation and development of writing was a cybernetic advance with far-reaching consequences. It allowed writers to communicate with readers who were distant in time and space, extended the storage capacity of human knowledge, including information that ranged from mundane accounting to sacred narrative, bridged visual and auditory worlds by linking icons with meaningful sound, and offered an enduring means of displaying and ma…
Practical Religion and Piety
Official religion is presented as centring on royal-divine relations; decorum excludes human non-funerary religious concerns. For want of evidence, pre-New Kingdom personal religion must therefore be approached through constructing hypotheses rather than accumulating evidence. A biographical model suggests that practical religionȔreligious action in an everyday contextȔmay focus on affliction, to which responses include communication with the dea…
Fecundity Figures: Egyptian Personification and the Iconology of a Genre
Formerly known as 'Nile gods', fecundity figures personifications of aspects of non-sexual fertility have a significant role in the sophisticated iconography of ancient Egypt. In his pioneering study, first published in 1985, John Baines introduces new approaches to Egyptian art and symbolic classification through a study of this distinctive genre.Part 1 analyses the definition of Egyptian personifications, whose role has parallels in many cultur…
Theories and Universals of Representation: Heinrich Schäfer and Egyptian Art
Egyptian Letters of the New Kingdom as Evidence for Religious Practice
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Egyptian Myth and Discourse: Myth, Gods, and the Early Written and Iconographic Record
U.S. Military Assistance to Latin America: An Assessment
This paper examines the nature of the U.S. Military Assistance Program (MAP) to Latin America and the historical development of the Military Assistance Program in the hemisphere. It further analyzes this program with regard to the two major criticisms levelled at it: (1) that Military Assistance Programs have perpetuated “militarism” in the form of military coups and strong-man military regimes; and (2) that Military Assistance Programs have enco…
Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing theories, by divergent ideas regarding both predictor and outcomes variables, and by differences of opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse of information d…
Art. XIX.—On Certain Features of Social Differentiation in India
The question of caste, with a branch of which I am to deal, is, I need hardly observe, the most important of all social subjects connected with India. As the most prominent feature in the organization of the community, it enters into every ramification of the administration, and these, as we all know, are many. As admittedly the mainstay of the religious belief of the majority of the population, it has received a place in the sacred lore of the p…
A Bronze Statuette of Atum
A Bronze Statuette of Atum
The indundation stela of Sebekḥotpe VIII
R. T. Rundle Clark's Papers on the Iconography of Osiris
The Negative Verbal System of Late Egyptian
R. T. Rundle Clark's Papers on the Iconography of Osiris
Further Remarks on Statuettes of Atum
U.S. Military Assistance to Latin America: An Assessment
This paper examines the nature of the U.S. Military Assistance Program (MAP) to Latin America and the historical development of the Military Assistance Program in the hemisphere. It further analyzes this program with regard to the two major criticisms levelled at it: (1) that Military Assistance Programs have perpetuated “militarism” in the form of military coups and strong-man military regimes; and (2) that Military Assistance Programs have enco…
Revolution in Peru: Mariátegui and the Myth
Arrest and Movement: An Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near East
Kings at Karnak: A Study of the Treatment of the Monuments of Royal Predecessors in the Early New Kingdom
Principles of Egyptian Art
Principles of Egyptian Art
Principles of Egyptian Art
Early Hydraulic Society in Egypt: A Study on Cultural Ecology
Canon and Proportions in Egyptian Art
Atlas of Ancient Egypt
Interpreting Sinuhe
Interpreting Sinuhe
Literacy and Ancient Egyptian Society
From its first occurrence around 3000 B.C., writing was integral to the self-definition of Egyptian culture, especially in terms of display where it was part of a system of pictorial representation. By 2600 continuous texts were produced and any linguistic matter could be written; new genres of text appeared in stages, literary texts in the Middle Kingdom and some additional types in the New Kingdom. Very few people were literate, all of them off…
Abydos, Temple of Sethos I: Preliminary Report
Trois courtes campagnes (1979, 1981, 1983) de travail epigraphique et architectural pour fournir des materiaux au vol. V de The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos (A. M. Calverley et al.). Partie couverte par ce futur vol. V: le nord de l'extension sud du temple. Soit: le hall de Nefertem et Ptah-Sokar, les chapelles de Nefertem et de Ptah-Sokar, la moitie nord de la Galerie des listes et l'Escalier: reliefs et peintures (non terminees) du regne d…
Schäfer's Mottoes and the Understanding of Representation
Schafer's Mottoes and the Understanding of Representation
Assessments of the nutritional status of children on the Nembi plateau in 1978 and 1980
This study was carried out to assess the nutritional status of Nembi Children of Papua New Guinea in 1980 compared with that in 1978; to assess the pattern of child growth on the Nembi Plateau compared with that of a neighbouring highlands group, the Lagaip Enga; and to test the hypothesis that the rate of child malnutrition was not uniform throughout the altitudinal zones of the Nembi Plateau. The results show that Nembi children had a growth pa…
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