Elizabeth Frood
Elizabeth Anne Frood (born 1975) is a New Zealand-born Egyptologist and academic, who specialises in self-presentation and the study of non-royals. Since 2006, she has been an associate professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. She's also been director of its Griffith Institute and is a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.Frood became disabled in 2015. Following an infection which developed into sepsis, she lost part of her nose which has since been reconstructed, both her legs were amputated below the knee, and the hearing in one ear and the use of her hands was significantly impaired. After returning to work on a part-time basis in 2016, she undertook her first post-recovery fieldwork trip to Egypt in 2018. She wrote about her experience of returning to Egypt post-disability in her article "Returning to Egypt: acquired disability and fieldwork", for the University of Oxford website.
In 2020 she made her debut as a television presenter for the BBC, with the documentary "Tutankhamun in Colour" broadcast on BBC4. New colourising techniques were applied to original black and white footage, to explore the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
She has also fronted a fashion campaign for Kintsugi, an inclusive fashion brand that takes its name from the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer.
She is a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Ancient History. Provided by Wikipedia
Ancient Egyptian biographies : contexts, forms, functions
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Introduction Julie Stauder-Porchet, Elizabeth Frood, Andr?as Stauder Part 1. Anthropological and Contrastive Perspectives Narrating Biography versus Biographical Indexicality Michael Silverstein Self-Representation in Mesopotamia: The Literary Evidence Christopher Woods From Living a Life to Creating a Fit Memorial John Baines Part 2. The Original Old Kingdom Settings Genres and Textual Prehistories of the Egyptian Autobiography in the Old Kingdom Julie Stauder-Porchet (Auto-)Bioconographies versus (Auto-)Biographies in Old Kingdom Elite Tombs: Complexity Expansion of Image and Word Reflecting Personality Traits by Competitive Individuality Ren? van Walsem Part 3. Text Format and Language Autobiography versus Biography in the Second Person and Biography in the Third Person: Textual Formats, Authorship, and Apocryphal/Pseudepigraphic Works Pascal Vernus Clich?s in Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies Laurent Coulon Expressions of Royal Agency: Forms of the Verb in the Old Kingdom Event Autobiography Andr?as Stauder Part 4. Social Dimensions The Social Context of Biographies (Old and Middle Kingdom) Juan Carlos Moreno Garc?a Images of Social Ascent in Biographical Self-Presentations from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom Katalin Anna K?thay jnk wr m njw.t=f : References to njw.t, Town, City in Biographies of the Second Intermediate Period Sabine Kubisch Part 5. Religious Experience Living a Religious Life: The Display of Religious Experience in Egyptian Autobiographies Maria Michela Luiselli Participation in Religious Ceremonies, as Related in Egyptian Biographies David Klotz
Ancient Egyptian biographies : contexts, forms, functions /
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"(Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. 0The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: (1) anthropological and contrastive perspectives; (2) the original Old Kingdom settings; (3) text format and language; (4) social dimensions; and (5) religious experience"--
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vii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781948488280