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Author Ezzamel, Mahmoud

Title Accounting and Order
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (489 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Accounting
Routledge studies in accounting.
Contents Pt. I. Egypt, order, and scribes -- pt. II. Accounting, order, and gods -- pt. III. Providing for the state -- pt. IV. Ordering the private domain -- pt. V. Epilogue
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Accounting -- Egypt -- History
Social control -- Egypt -- History
Order -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Accounting -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Bookkeeping.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Accounting -- Financial.
Accounting
Order
Social control
Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136338304
1136338306