| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; volume 102 |
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 102.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Preface; Figures and Tables; Chapter 1. Introduction: Egyptian and Egyptological Concepts (Nyord); Chapter 2. Projection of Self in Middle Kingdom Tombs and Coffins (Bickel); Chapter 3. The Concept of 'Letters to the Dead' and Egyptian Funerary Culture (Donnat); Chapter 4. How 'Royal' (and 'Mythical') Are the Coffin Texts? Reflections on the Definition and Function of Some Etic Concepts in a Middle Kingdom Funerary Text Corpus (Goebs); Chapter 5. How 'Funerary' Are the Coffin Texts? (von Lieven) |
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Chapter 6. Burial Demography in the Late Middle Kingdom: a Social Perspective (Miniaci)Chapter 7. The Concept of ka between Egyptian and Egyptological Frameworks (Nyord); Chapter 8. Who Am I? An Emic Approach to the So-Called 'Personal Texts' in Egyptian 'Funerary Literature' (Willems); Index of Egyptian Terms in Transliteration; General Index |
| Summary |
Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture presents a collection of archaeological and philological papers discussing how ancient Egyptians thought, and modern scholars may think, about Egyptian funerary practices of the early 2nd millennium BCE. Targeting the concepts used by modern scholars, the papers address both general methodological questions of how concepts should be developed and used and more specific ones about the history and presuppositions behind particular Egyptological concepts. In so doing, the volume brings to the fore occasionally problematic intellectual baggage that have hindered understanding, as well highlighting new promising avenues of research in ancient Egyptian funerary culture in the Middle Kingdom and more broadly |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 12, 2019) |
| Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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Antiquities
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- Antiquities -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nyord, Rune, editor
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| LC no. |
2019011118 |
| ISBN |
9004399844 |
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9789004399846 |
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