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(Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Liège, 6th-8th February 2013

Tradition
is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises
the concept by bringing together the most recent work on archaeological,
art historical and philological material from the Predynastic to the
Late Period. The eclectic mix of material in this volume takes us from
New Kingdom artists in the Theban foothills to Old Kingdom Abusir, and
from changing ideas about literary texts to the visual effects of
archaising statuary. With themes of diachrony persisting at the centre,
aspects of traditional approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets
of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as
processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and
as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact
production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first
three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the
contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects
papers dealing with traditions which span different media. The
concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by
the field of text criticism and form common reference points for
describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate
kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state
of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and
historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are
frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are
thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume
agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive,
and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and
static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the
description of various types of cultural production. This
volume represents an interdisciplinary collaboration around a topic of
perennial interest, a rarity in a field increasingly fractured by
progressive specialisation.Title: Tradition and Transformation: Retracing Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures from Akhmim in museums and private collectionsCarlo Rindi Nuzzolo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8183-8483

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