BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news431@daw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220429T165744 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220419T181500 SUMMARY:The Snares of Thoth: a Social History of Provincial Administration in Ptolemaic Egypt DESCRIPTION:In this dissertation\, I investigate social change as a functio n of broad structural changes implemented by the Ptolemaic state\, specifi cally the proliferation of royal administration within local societies of the Nile Valley. In this process\, local historical actors were the primar y agents of change\, as their everyday choices constructed the state appar atus and facilitated the execution of its operations. I argue that state f ormation contributed to the restructuring of local societies by presenting additional opportunities for the accumulation of social power. I make thi s argument on the basis of an investigation of the Egyptian nome\, a hybri d institution of both administrative and social character. The administrat ive institution of the nome and its hierarchy of officials was grafted ont o a complex web of societies varying in extent from dense local communitie s of agricultural producers to extensive networks of religious and militar y elites. The interface of this web of social networks with the nodes of t he royal administration’s hierarchical network was the cutting edge of s tate formation: the arena within which the reciprocal obligations of king and subjects\, friends and strangers\, were negotiated. Because the interf ace of society and administration formed the institutional raison d’êtr e of the Egyptian nome\, and because the nome was a geographical entity in both form and function\, I conduct the investigation of this institution using tools of human geography\, specifically analyses of spatial distribu tion and connectivity. These analyses examine the administration’s degre e of embeddedness in local societies\, its geotemporal reach\, and its coh esiveness. I perform these analyses on seven distinct nomes in order to il lustrate the topography of local administration and the geography of state -contingent social power within each nome. I supplement these local human geographies with case-studies on individual provincial administrators\, ap proaching them not as mere cogs in the machine of royal revenue extraction \, but as socially embedded historical agents. These case-studies illustra te the transformative potential of state-formation distributed throughout local societies.\\r\\nVeranstaltung findet via Zoom statt: https://unibas. zoom.us/j/64439298445 [https://unibas.zoom.us/j/64439298445] X-ALT-DESC:

In this dissertation\, I investigate social change as a funct ion of broad structural changes implemented by the Ptolemaic state\, speci fically the proliferation of royal administration within local societies o f the Nile Valley. In this process\, local historical actors were the prim ary agents of change\, as their everyday choices constructed the state app aratus and facilitated the execution of its operations. I argue that state formation contributed to the restructuring of local societies by presenti ng additional opportunities for the accumulation of social power. I make t his argument on the basis of an investigation of the Egyptian nome\, a hyb rid institution of both administrative and social character. The administr ative institution of the nome and its hierarchy of officials was grafted o nto a complex web of societies varying in extent from dense local communit ies of agricultural producers to extensive networks of religious and milit ary elites. The interface of this web of social networks with the nodes of the royal administration’s hierarchical network was the cutting edge of state formation: the arena within which the reciprocal obligations of kin g and subjects\, friends and strangers\, were negotiated. Because the inte rface of society and administration formed the institutional raison d’ê tre of the Egyptian nome\, and because the nome was a geographical entity in both form and function\, I conduct the investigation of this institutio n using tools of human geography\, specifically analyses of spatial distri bution and connectivity. These analyses examine the administration’s deg ree of embeddedness in local societies\, its geotemporal reach\, and its c ohesiveness. I perform these analyses on seven distinct nomes in order to illustrate the topography of local administration and the geography of sta te-contingent social power within each nome. I supplement these local huma n geographies with case-studies on individual provincial administrators\, approaching them not as mere cogs in the machine of royal revenue extracti on\, but as socially embedded historical agents. These case-studies illust rate the transformative potential of state-formation distributed throughou t local societies.

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