Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025): Egyptology in Dialogue: Historical bodies in relations, comparisons, and negotiations (Interdisciplinary Egyptology Special Issue 2)
This special issue of Interdisciplinary Egyptology presents the proceedings of the workshop Egyptology in dialogue: Historical bodies in relations, comparisons, and negotiations, which was held at Emory University, November 2022. It is edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, Rune Nyord, Leire Olabarria, and Reinert Skumsnes. All research articles in the volume were double-blind peer reviewed.
What insights can ancient Egyptian sources lend to our understanding of the human body? And what multidisciplinary perspectives can Egyptologists draw on to bring ancient sources around the body into dialogue with current phenomena and priorities?
Through engagement with recent anthropological and archaeological theory, the contributions to this volume recognise that every society understands the human body in its own way and thus that the body has a history and a culture-specific logic that warrants exploration. The volume moreover explores how bodies are relationally contingent, existing in both explicit relations with each other and their surroundings and in implicit relations across time and space. These relational encounters can be studied on their own or in comparisons between and negotiations with other entities, perspectives, time periods, and spaces.
By exploring these concepts with case studies from across the archaeological, visual, and textual record, this special issue includes conversations that extend well beyond the discipline, enabling us to engage with Egypt’s rich archaeological record with new theoretical and methodological awareness.
Published:
2025-12-18
