Accounting and order / Mahmoud Ezzamel
(Routledge studies in accounting ; 12)
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| データ種別 | 図書 |
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| 出版者 | New York : Routledge |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xx, 482 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm |
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| 一般注記 | Summary: "This book draws on ancient Egyptian inscriptions in order to theorize the relationship between accounting and order. It focuses especially on the performative power of accounting in producing and sustaining order in society. It explores how accounting intervened in various domains of the ancient Egyptian world: the cosmos; life on earth (offerings to the gods; taxation; transportation; redistribution for palace dependants; mining activities; work organization; baking and brewing; private estates and the household; and private transactions in semi-barter exchange); and the cult of the dead. The book emphasizes several possibilities through which accounting can be theorized over and above strands of theorizing that have already been explored in detail previously. These additional possibilities theorize accounting as a performative ritual; myth; a sign system; a signifier; a time ordering device; a spatial ordering device; violence; and as an archive and a cultural memory. Each of these themes are summ Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-469) and index |
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| 著者標目 | *Ezzamel, Mahmoud |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Accounting -- Egypt -- History
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| 分 類 | LCC:HF5616.E3 DC23:657.0932 |
| 書誌ID | 0000097331 |
| ISBN | 9780415482615 |
| NCID | BB09629032 |