In this chapter, we broach Kemetic/Ancient Egyptian sociology to provide a sociological historical context for the book. Since Western scholars developed an academic discipline they dubbed “Sociology” in the nineteenth century, they posit that the people of Kemet “did not study Sociology as a formal academic discipline.” Nonetheless, these Western sociologists also concede that Kemetic people, by virtue of living in a “highly structured and conservative society,” generated and maintained detailed records of their social hierarchy, culture, and laws, thereby providing rich material that modern scholars can analyze using sociological frameworks to understand their society (see, for example, Flynn, 2021). It seems to us that this is what sociology is mostly about. This is analogous to the proverbial American “duck test” aphorism: i.e., “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”

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Kemetic Sociology

  • Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando,
  • Abdul Karim Bangura

摘要

In this chapter, we broach Kemetic/Ancient Egyptian sociology to provide a sociological historical context for the book. Since Western scholars developed an academic discipline they dubbed “Sociology” in the nineteenth century, they posit that the people of Kemet “did not study Sociology as a formal academic discipline.” Nonetheless, these Western sociologists also concede that Kemetic people, by virtue of living in a “highly structured and conservative society,” generated and maintained detailed records of their social hierarchy, culture, and laws, thereby providing rich material that modern scholars can analyze using sociological frameworks to understand their society (see, for example, Flynn, 2021). It seems to us that this is what sociology is mostly about. This is analogous to the proverbial American “duck test” aphorism: i.e., “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”