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Leire Olabarria: Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue

Leire Olabarria: Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue Afr Archaeol Rev (2021) 38:547–549 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-021-09438-6 BOOK REVIEW Leire Olabarria: Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020, 292 pp., ISBN 978-1108498777 Tom Landvatter Published online: 3 June 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 In the study of ancient Egypt, archaeologists and Egyp- chapters) provides the theoretical background for the tologists are confronted with an overwhelming abun- study and introduces the sources and Olabarria’soverall dance of material. Thousands of preserved texts, in approach. The second part (four chapters) is dedicated to addition to environmental conditions favorable to ar- what she terms “koinographic analysis.” Inscribed vo- chaeological preservation, make it is possible to exam- tive stelae are the main sources of Olabarria’sevidence. ine ancient Egyptian society at a level of detail nearly These sources are traditional in Egyptology, but without parallel elsewhere in the ancient world. Despite Olabarria’s approach to them is not. this wealth of evidence (or perhaps because of it) Egyp- In Chapter 1, Olabarria outlines her theoretical ap- tology has been, on the whole, a fairly niche and isolated proach to “kinship,” which she defines “as a process of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Archaeological Review Springer Journals

Leire Olabarria: Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue

African Archaeological Review , Volume 38 (3) – Sep 1, 2021

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Afr Archaeol Rev (2021) 38:547–549 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-021-09438-6 BOOK REVIEW Leire Olabarria: Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020, 292 pp., ISBN 978-1108498777 Tom Landvatter Published online: 3 June 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 In the study of ancient Egypt, archaeologists and Egyp- chapters) provides the theoretical background for the tologists are confronted with an overwhelming abun- study and introduces the sources and Olabarria’soverall dance of material. Thousands of preserved texts, in approach. The second part (four chapters) is dedicated to addition to environmental conditions favorable to ar- what she terms “koinographic analysis.” Inscribed vo- chaeological preservation, make it is possible to exam- tive stelae are the main sources of Olabarria’sevidence. ine ancient Egyptian society at a level of detail nearly These sources are traditional in Egyptology, but without parallel elsewhere in the ancient world. Despite Olabarria’s approach to them is not. this wealth of evidence (or perhaps because of it) Egyp- In Chapter 1, Olabarria outlines her theoretical ap- tology has been, on the whole, a fairly niche and isolated proach to “kinship,” which she defines “as a process of

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