Author Description

The twelve papers in this volume were presented at the Lady Wallis Budge Symposium held at Christ's College and the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge, on 25-26 July 2017. After a long period of separation between the fields of Egyptology and anthropology, the current academic climate emphasizing interdisciplinary studies, Egyptologists have been increasingly drawing from the developments of their anthropological counterparts. They recognize that anthropological approaches have great potential to elucidate ancient evidence from the Nile Valley, with contributions proving the utility of such approaches for comprehension of issues such as (among others) kinship, imagery, material culture, and intercultural relations.