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Cultural Expression in the Old Kingdom Elite Tomb (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Cultural Expression in the Old Kingdom Elite Tomb (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Archaeopress Egyptology
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Cultural Expression in the Old Kingdom Elite Tomb considers the
material and immaterial culture left behind by the ancient Egyptian
elite in their tombs starting some 5000 years ago. The book intends
to understand this culture reflecting the 'intention' of the
ancient Egyptians. All these 'intentions' are now inaccessible to
us, a paradox indeed. The author starts by examining the ways in
which other Egyptologists have understood tomb culture over the
past century. Two main clusters of thought dominate the history of
this topic, the literal and/or the symbolic meaning. The literal is
a popular approach for the modern world; the symbolic encompasses
the ancient Egyptians' ideas about the meaning of life in this and
the next world, and metaphysical perfection. The author uses a
third mid-way course between the literal and the symbolic; i.e. an
attempt to study the evidence in its reality and to search for
common, universal factors which may be present and which may aid
understanding. The result is an inventory, analysis and synthesis
of the core components of Egyptian cultural dynamics as reflected
in the iconographic evolution of Old Kingdom elite tombs. New
horizons are opened up for describing and interpreting cultural
data of many different levels (identity, ideology as social layers,
and static versus dynamic as cultural mechanisms). The work goes
beyond mainstream Egyptology, because the findings, apart from a
specific Egyptian core, also have universal implications since
comparison with other cultures shows comparable phenomena.
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