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5 long essay articles:

• Conceptions of person
• Private and public life
• State Organization and Ideology
• The king
• Economy

89 encyclopedia entries:

• person – 3 entries
• [conceptions of person - essay article for this section]
• body
• senses
• emotions
• private life – 17 entries
• [Private and Public Life - essay article for this section]
• family (including kinship relations)
• marriage / divorce
• offspring (including adoption)
• adoption
• personal names (onomastics) – 2
• patterns of name-giving
• meaning of names
• life expectancy
• health and disease [cross reference ‘medicine’ in category 9, domains of knowledge]
• human fertility
• stages of life – 5
• birth
• childhood
• maturity
• old age
• death [cross reference ‘religion’, category 5]
• rites of passage [cross reference ‘initiation rituals’ in category 5, religion]
• human relationships (including friendship, love, sex)
• gender (including sexuality)
• the state and its institutions – 34 entries
• [state organization and ideology – essay article for this section]
• monarchy – 23
• [the king – essay article for this section]
• royal titulary – 5
• the five names of the king
• epithets and designations
• patterns of royal name-giving
• serekh
• cartouche
• regalia [cross reference category 8, material culture] – 4
• crowns
• scepters
• clothing
• mekes
• royal family – 3
• royal women
• the queen
• princesses
• princes
• King’s Son of Kush (elsewhere)
• Ruling house (dynasty) [see category 3, time and history]
• succession to the throne
• coregency [see category 3, time and history]
• court and courtiers
• harem
• rituals performed for the king [see category 5, religion]
• royal mortuary cult [see category 5, religion]
• kings in the cultural memory
• damnatio memoriae
• texts of royal propaganda [see category 7, language, text, and writing]
• vizierate
• priests (including types of priests)
• military
• bureaucracy
• law (classical and later periods)
• taxation
• diplomacy
• warfare
• corruption
• propaganda
• structures and relationships in society – 18 entries
• social categories – 6
• gender
• ethnicity
• class
• kinship / family relations
• age groups (see also, stages of life)
• outsiders and outcasts
• demography
• urbanism
• nomadism
• labor
• property
• inheritance
• poverty
• famine
• ethics (i.e. social rules/ rules of conduct)
• crime and punishment
• education / apprenticeship
• types of health care [cross reference ‘medicine’ in category 9, domains of knowledge]
• literacy
• servitude and slavery
• labor unrest (including strikes)
• travel
• violence
• humor
• economy – 17 entries
• [economy of ancient Egypt – essay article for this section]
• domains / estates (temple & royal)
• agriculture
• pastoralism
• conspicuous consumption
• expeditions
• gift giving
• hunting
• irrigation [cross reference ‘technology’ in category 8, material culture]
• land tenure [cross reference ‘technology’ in category 8, material culture]
• monetarization (cf. units of exchange)
• redistribution
• seafaring [cross reference ‘technology’ in category 8, material culture]
• trade
• transportation [cross reference ‘technology’ in category 8, material culture]
• units of exchange
• weights and measurements
• markets

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