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The Walking Dead at Saqqara - Strategies of Social and Religious Interaction in Practice (Hardcover)
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The Walking Dead at Saqqara - Strategies of Social and Religious Interaction in Practice (Hardcover)
Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten
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Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research
in religious studies, especially for ancient Egypt. Still, we know
relatively little about how people interacted in daily life at the
city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the late second
millennium BCE. By focussing on lived ancient religion, we can see
that the social and religious strategies employed by the
individuals at Saqqara are not just means on the way to religious,
post-mortem salvation, nor is their self-representation simply
intended to manifest social status. On the contrary, the religious
practices at Saqqara show in their complex spatiality a wide
spectrum of options to configure sociality before and after one's
own death. The analytical distinction between religion and other
forms of human practices and sociality illuminates the range of
cultural practices and how people selected, modified, or even
avoided certain religious practices. As a result, pre-funerary,
funerary and practices of the subsequent mortuary cults, in close
connection with religious practices directed towards other
ancestors and deities, allow the formation of imagined and
functioning reminiscence clusters as central social groups at
Saqqara, creating a heuristic model applicable also to other
contexts.
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