In Ancient Egypt one finds two different yet complementary perceptions of the passage of time: one cyclical, characteristic of a religious context, the other linear, distinctive of a secular, civil context. However, both perceptions implied a permanent look onto the past, either because it was taken as a model for the present or because it was regarded as a standard that needed to be surpassed. The political use of history did much for keeping, and transforming, the past in the present; as did personal convenience when it came to autobiographical narratives and even the composition of works of fiction. Given this major concern for the past and for history, one might ask why then history as a scholarly discipline failed to emerge in the land...
Mathematics, as a social and cultural construct, is not an ahistorical and enduring entity, but is s...
The problematic search for ancient Egyptian historiography is tied to the debated extent and form of...
Cleómenes de Náucratis fue el primer gran personaje del Egipto helenístico. La imagen que emerge de ...
History and myth, from an anthropological perspective, are concepts which have different vision of t...
J. Assmann's studies on the characteristics observed by the phenomenon known as cultural memory in t...
The history of Prehispanic Peru is in a state of uncertainty ever since research from the perspectiv...
El artículo confronta la tesis mantenida por el antropólogo Claude Lévi-Strauss acerca de la «no exi...
El final del Reino Antiguo ha sido explicado desde perspectivas económicas —un agotamiento de los re...
The analysis of the textual, iconographic and archaeological evidence in ancient Egypt reveals the ...
The traditional historiography has had, until a few time ago, the man as only and main character, bu...
The title of this paper condenses one of the characteristics that the late religious fact adopted: a...
El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en explorar las bases de la realeza faraónica, analizando las c...
Durante el Reino Medio egipcio asistiremos al desarrollo de la denominada literatura pesimista, únic...
As in other civilizations, time in Islam is one of the organizing principies of its concepts, repres...
The war, in both construction and socialphenomenon, is no stranger to the frames ofsense of the comm...
Mathematics, as a social and cultural construct, is not an ahistorical and enduring entity, but is s...
The problematic search for ancient Egyptian historiography is tied to the debated extent and form of...
Cleómenes de Náucratis fue el primer gran personaje del Egipto helenístico. La imagen que emerge de ...
History and myth, from an anthropological perspective, are concepts which have different vision of t...
J. Assmann's studies on the characteristics observed by the phenomenon known as cultural memory in t...
The history of Prehispanic Peru is in a state of uncertainty ever since research from the perspectiv...
El artículo confronta la tesis mantenida por el antropólogo Claude Lévi-Strauss acerca de la «no exi...
El final del Reino Antiguo ha sido explicado desde perspectivas económicas —un agotamiento de los re...
The analysis of the textual, iconographic and archaeological evidence in ancient Egypt reveals the ...
The traditional historiography has had, until a few time ago, the man as only and main character, bu...
The title of this paper condenses one of the characteristics that the late religious fact adopted: a...
El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en explorar las bases de la realeza faraónica, analizando las c...
Durante el Reino Medio egipcio asistiremos al desarrollo de la denominada literatura pesimista, únic...
As in other civilizations, time in Islam is one of the organizing principies of its concepts, repres...
The war, in both construction and socialphenomenon, is no stranger to the frames ofsense of the comm...
Mathematics, as a social and cultural construct, is not an ahistorical and enduring entity, but is s...
The problematic search for ancient Egyptian historiography is tied to the debated extent and form of...
Cleómenes de Náucratis fue el primer gran personaje del Egipto helenístico. La imagen que emerge de ...