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8 - City and Countryside, Image and Text: Balancing Rural and Urban Values in Third-Millennium Egypt

from Part Three - Cities, States, and Empires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

Geoff Emberling
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History
The Present and Future of Counternarratives
, pp. 161 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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