Concepts in Middle Kingdom funerary culture : : proceedings of the Lady Wallis Budge anniversary symposium held at Christ's College, Cambridge, 22 January 2016 / / by Rune Nyord.
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...
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Superior document: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East, volume 102 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019] |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 pages). |
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Other title: | Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Preface / Introduction: Egyptian and Egyptological Concepts / Projection of Self in Middle Kingdom Tombs and Coffins / The Concept of ‘Letters to the Dead’ and Egyptian Funerary Culture / 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 / How ‘Funerary’ Are the Coffin Texts? / Burial Demography in the Late Middle Kingdom: a Social Perspective / The Concept of ka between Egyptian and Egyptological Frameworks / Who Am I? An Emic Approach to the So-Called ‘Personal Texts’ in Egyptian ‘Funerary Literature’ / Back Matter -- Indexes / |
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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. |
ISBN: | 9004399844 |
ISSN: | 1566-2055 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Rune Nyord. |