The Social and Cultural Order of Ancient Egypt

Steen Bergendorff is associate professor emeritus in the Department of Social Science and Business at Roskilde University.

"All that glitters is not gold!" Not in the perspective of Steen Bergendorff. In The Social and Cultural Order of Ancient Egypt, Bergendorff starts from gold control to explain the hegemony of the ruling class and the formation of the social and cultural mindset of ancient Egyptians. Bergendorff successfully evokes a different Egypt, an Egypt seen through the eyes of an anthropologist, an Egypt untangled from its local perspective and presented from a more global view.--Gianluca Miniaci, University of Pisa Why did the pharaonic society flourish in one of the harshest environments in the world? In this stimulating book, inspired by a solid anthropological background, Steen Bergendorff provides an original and vibrant narrative in which gold appears as a crucial move in the emergence of the Egyptian civilization.--Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, Sorbonne Universite