Perspectives on Lived Religion: Practices - Transmission - Landscape
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Sidestone Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities Ser.
v.21 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Religion
/ Popular piety
/ Transmission
/ Cultural landscape
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Collection of essays
B Electronic books B Egypt-Religion |
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Erscheint auch als: 9789088907937 |
| Summary: | Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation, negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of religious landscapes.Bringing together papers by experts in a variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study, this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop held at Leiden University, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) Vidi Talent Scheme. The 15 papers presented here discuss the archaeology of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and 'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese archaeology, early and medieval south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China. Intro -- Perspectives on Lived Religion -- Practices - Transmission - Landscape -- Nico Staring, Huw Twiston Davies and Lara Weiss -- Re-awakening Osiris at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos) -- New Evidence for Votive Offerings and other Religious Practices -- Julia Budka -- Appropriation of Territory through Migrant Ritual Practices in Egypt's Eastern Delta -- Miriam Müller -- Prosopographia Memphitica -- Analysing Prosopographical Data and Personal Networks from the Memphite Necropolis -- Anne Herzberg -- Immortality as the Response of Others? -- Lara Weiss -- Practice, Meaning and Intention -- Interpreting Votive Objects from Ancient Egypt -- Richard Bussmann -- Identifying Christian Burials -- Mattias Brand -- The Harpists' Songs at Saqqara: Transmission, Performance, and Contexts -- H. Twiston Davies -- The Crying Game -- Some Thoughts about the "Cow and Calf" Scenes on the Sarcophagi of Aashyt and Kawit -- Burkhard Backes -- Human and Material Aspects in the Process of Transmission and Copying the Book of the Dead in the Tomb of Djehuty (TT 11) -- Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos -- Vyāsa's Palimpsest -- Tracking Processes of Transmission and Re-creation in Anonymous Sanskrit Literature -- Peter C. Bisschop -- In Hathor's Womb. Shifting Agency of Iconographic Environments -- The Private Tombs of the Theban Necropolis under the Prism of Cultural Geography -- Alexis Den Doncker -- Epigraphical Dialogues with the Landscape -- New Kingdom Rock Inscriptions in Upper Nubia -- Johannes Auenmüller -- From Landscape Biography to the Social Dimension of Burial -- A View from Memphis, Egypt, c. 1539‑1078 BCE -- Nico Staring -- Architectures of Intimidation -- Political Ecology and Landscape Manipulation in Early Hindu Southeast Asia -- Elizabeth A. Cecil -- Attending the Grave on a Clear Spring Day -- Ancient and Modern Linked Ecologies of Religious Life -- Anna Sun. |
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| ISBN: | 9088907943 |