From: Richard Pinch <R.G.E.Pinch@pmms.cam.ac.uk>
To: ncs3@cus.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Meeting NY Dec 10th

The American Research Center in Egypt

Sixth Annual Symposium
Gods, State, and People in Ancient Egypt:
Egyptological and Anthropological Perspectives
Saturday, December 10, 1994, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The 1994 ARCE Symposium will be  a day-long exploration of the
increasing interaction between the fields of Egyptology and
Anthropology.

The Egyptian Cosmos: Anthropological and Egyptological
Perspectives
  David O'Connor, University of Pennsylvania Museum of
  Archaeology and Anthropology
Amulets as Personal Expressions of Religious Belief and Cultural
Values
  Diana Craig Patch, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Population of Ancient Egypt in World Perspective
  C.L. Brace, University of Michigan
Environment, Ecology and Agriculture in Ancient Egypt:
The Relationship between the Land and the People
  Wilma Wetterstrom, Botanical Museum, Harvard University
The Development of Towns:  The Anthropological Perspective
  Matthew Adams, University of Pennsylvania Museum of
  Archaeology and Anthropology
The State of Research on Late Pre-Dynastic Egypt:
New Evidence for the Development of the Pharaonic State?
  Christiana Koehler, University of Pennsylvania Museum of
  Archaeology and Anthropology
Summary and Discussion
  Andrew Moore, Yale University
  Rita Wright, New York University, Gregory Johnson, Hunter
  College

ARCE members are invited to join the speakers for a special
buffet luncheon at the Museum -- space for this special event is
extremely limited, so please reserve promptly.

Gods, State, and People in Ancient Egypt will be held at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Uris Center Auditorium, Fifth Avenue
and 81st Street, New York.  For more information on the
symposium, please call the ARCE offices at (212) 998-8890.

ADMISSION:  $10 full-time students, $20 ARCE members, $30 general
public.  The members-only luncheon is $30.