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| | Meskell, L.: Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt. |
 | | Drawing on the remarkably rich and detailed archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence from some 450 years of the New Kingdom, as well as recent theoretical innovations from several fields, it reconstructs private and social life from birth to death. |
 | | Also included is neglected information on the formation of locality and the construction of gender and sexual identity and new evidence from the mortuary record, including important new data on the burial of children. |
 | | She is the founding editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology, the author of Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class Et Cetera in Ancient Egypt, and the editor of Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics, and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. |
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