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Breathing Flesh - Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Paperback)
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Breathing Flesh - Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Paperback)
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The ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts form a corpus of ritual spells
written on the inside of coffins from the Middle Kingdom (c.
2000-1650 BCE). Thus accompanying the deceased in a very concrete
sense, the spells are part of a long Egyptian tradition of
equipping the dead with ritual texts ensuring the transition from
the state of a living human being to that of a deceased ancestor.
The texts present a view of death as entailing threats to the
function of the body, often conceptualised as bodily fragmentation
or dysfunction. In the transformation of the deceased, the
restoration of these bodily dysfunctions is of paramount
importance, and the texts provide detailed accounts of the ritual
empowerment of the body to achieve this goal. Seen from this
perspective, the Coffin Texts provide a rich material for studying
ancient Egyptian conceptions of the body by providing insights into
the underlying structure of the body as a whole and the proper
function of individual part of the body as seen by the ancient
Egyptians. Drawing on a theoretical framework from cognitive
linguistics and phenomenological anthropology, Breathing Flesh
presents an analysis of the conceptualisation of the human body and
its individual parts in the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. From
this starting point, more overarching concepts and cultural models
are discussed, including the ritual conceptualisation of the
acquisition and use of powerful substances such as "magic", and the
role of fertility and procreation in ancient Egyptian mortuary
conceptions.
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