Intimate archaeologies

This paper explores the possibilities of reading life histories from Egyptian material culture in mortuary contexts. The burials of partners, such as Kha and Merit, clearly illustrate that social inequality was operative between husbands and wives at Deir el Medina. It demonstrates the social negotiations conducted by family members and the potential social tensions faced at the moments of death and burial. This analysis seeks to recentre individual relationships in antiquity and reinstate the central issues of human intention and emotion

Inequality · Negotiation · Political science · Reading (process · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law

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