The funeral laments of Upper Egypt have an elaborate and ancient
history stretching back more than 5,000 years. Even the chants of
modern-day lamenters, echo the words of their ancestors. Yet this
ancient tradition is now under threat from social and political
change. The laments - known as idid in Arabic - are composed orally
in performance. Elizabeth Wickett explores the performance, motifs
and meanings of the laments and reveals their relation to myth,
religion, cosmology and the ancient Egyptian funerary texts. The
author was given unique access to this fast disappearing tradition,
and her book provides a unique cultural archive that will interest
Egyptologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists
and all those with an interest in the language and culture of the
Middle East.
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