Chiefs, Kings, and Patrons. Leadership and Social Logics in the Beginnings of Ancient Egypt

CAMPAGNO, MARCELO

Trabajos de Egiptología - Papers on Ancient Egypt

Universidad de La Laguna

Lugar: Tenerife; Año: 2016 vol. 7 p. 9 - 22

1695-4750

This article analyses different types of sociopolitical leadership in Ancient Egypt from the fourth to the third millennium BC linked with the social logics of kinship, the state, and patronage. It is suggested that such logics can beconsidered in terms of coexistence rather than in terms of sequence. In particular, the use of the concept of patronage is emphasised, not just for periods of state crisis but also, in connection with the concepts of kinship and the state, to think about the earliest epochs of Egyptian history.