Analysing the Dynamics among the Social Groups and the Mechanisms of Social Promotion in the Provinces in the late Old Kingdom: SNA Methods and New Research Approaches
Résumé
Social transformations are discernible within the whole Egyptian society from
the time of the late Old Kingdom. Social mobility and hierarchy are crucial issues,
especially concerning the provinces marked by an increase in the number of titled
individuals. The visual representation of social networks from the iconographical data
and records coming from the tomb of Pepyankhheryib (14th nome of Upper Egypt)
using the Gephi software makes it possible to uncover the role of some individuals
in this network as well as detect the dynamics among the social groups surrounding
the tomb owner, notably by connecting individuals who were involved in similar
institutions. This approach, producing results that were unnoticeable from a manual
method alone, ties in with a more global one whose aim is to investigate the social
structures as well as the process of social promotion in Old Kingdom provinces by
tackling this issue in a comprehensive way, based upon a crossover study of the
written, iconographical and archaeological sources, and comparing the results with
those obtained from my analysis of the provincial administrative structures.
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