法尤姆景观：埃及一万年的考古学、文献和传统

法尤姆地区位于开罗西南约100公里处，长期以来一直被认为是独一无二的，经常被描述为一个理想化的伊甸园。在《埃及风景》中，克莱尔·马勒森以一种新颖的方式研究了该地区，探索了数千年来人们感知和参与法尤姆风景的方式。区分经历过的国家和官僚记录，以及想象中的神话、意义和观察者的个人影响和期望，马勒森详细询问了这些认知来自何处。她追踪宗教习俗，追踪神话和传统，调查法老、古典和中世纪伊斯兰时期文本中的故事根源。她还回顾了从十七世纪到十九世纪有关该地区的许多较新的旅游作品。每一位作者的作品都是在其历史和文化背景下呈现的，根据该地区存在的许多纪念碑和古代定居点的考古证据，马勒森整合了有关法尤姆古代活动的已知信息。考古学和景观研究的学者和学生，以及对埃及历史和考古学感兴趣的普通读者，都会发现这本书极具吸引力和启发性。
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The Fayum Landscape: Ten Thousand Years of Archaeology, Texts, and Traditions in Egypt
Located some one hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, the Fayum region has long been regarded as unique, often described in terms that conjure up images of an idealized Garden of Eden. In An Egyptian Landscape, Claire Malleson takes a novel approach to the study of the region by exploring the ways in which people have, through millennia, perceived and engaged with the Fayum landscape. Distinguishing between the experienced landscape of state and bureaucratic record and the imagined landscape of myth, meaning, and observers’ personal influences and expectations, Malleson questions in detail where those perceptions come from. She traces religious practices, follows the tracks of myths and traditions, and investigates the roots of stories found in texts from the pharaonic, classical, and Medieval Islamic periods. She also reviews many, more recent travel writings on the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The work of each author is presented in its historical and cultural context, and Malleson integrates what is known about ancient activities in the Fayum, based on the archaeological evidence from the many monuments and ancient settlements that exist in the region. Scholars and students of archaeology and landscape studies as well as general readers interested in Egypt’s history and archaeology will find this book highly engaging and enlightening.
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