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8. The Narrow Doors of the Desert: Ancient Egyptian Roads in the Theban Western Desert

  • John Coleman Darnell
© University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

© University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. Preface vii
  4. 1. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. ROCK-ART
  6. 2. The Signature of Terror: Violence, Memory, and Landscape at Freeport 13
  7. 3. Ritual Response: Place Marking and the Colonial Frontier in Australia 27
  8. 4. Spaces of Resistance: Graffiti and Indigenous Place Markings in the Early European Contact Period of Northern Australia 42
  9. 5. Rock-Art as an Indicator of Changing Social Geographies in Central Australia 61
  10. 6. Wahi Pana: Legendary Places on Hawai‘i Island 79
  11. 7. Making Sense of Petroglyphs: The Sound of Rock-Art 93
  12. 8. The Narrow Doors of the Desert: Ancient Egyptian Roads in the Theban Western Desert 104
  13. 9. Rock-Art and Landscapes 122
  14. Part II. MONUMENTS
  15. 10. A Sense of Time: Cultural Markers in the Mesolithic of Southern England? 139
  16. 11. A Place of Special Meaning: Interpreting Pre-Historic Monuments in the Landscape 154
  17. 12. Monuments in the Pre-Historic Landscape of the Maltese Islands: Ritual and Domestic Transformations 176
  18. 13. Imperial Inscriptions in the Aztec Landscape 187
  19. 14. Negotiating the Village: Community Landscapes in the Late Pre-Historic American Southwest 200
  20. Part III. BEYOND THE MARK
  21. 15. Anchoring Mobile Subjectivities: Home, Identity, and Belonging among Italian Australian Migrants 219
  22. 16. Inscriptions as Initial Conditions: Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia) and the Silencing of the Mark 230
  23. 17. Sarawak on Stage: The Sarawak Cultural Village and the Colonization of Cultural Space in the Making of State Identity 240
  24. 18. The Edge of the Sacred, the Edge of Death: Sensual Inscriptions 253
  25. 19. The Work of Inscription in Foi Poetry 270
  26. Contributors 285
  27. Index 289
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