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Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier
| Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier |
| Autore | Mittermaier Amira |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina | 154.63096216 |
| Soggetto topico |
Dream interpretation - Egypt
Dream interpretation -- Egypt Dreams - Egypt Dreams -- Egypt Dreams - Religious aspects - Islam Dreams -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Case studies Egypt - Religion Egypt -- Religion Ethnopsychology - Egypt Ethnopsychology -- Egypt Dreams - Islam - Religious aspects - Egypt Ethnopsychology Social Sciences Parapsychology & Occult Sciences |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-27738-7
9786613277381 0-520-94785-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- On Transliterations and Translations -- Prelude -- Introduction: Studying Dreams in Undreamy Times -- 1. Dream Trouble -- 2. Thresholds of Interpretation -- 3. Seeing the (In)visible -- 4. Poetry and Prophecy -- 5. The Ethics of the Visitational Dream -- 6. The Royal Road into the Unknown -- 7. Virtual Realities, Visionary Realities -- Afterword: On the Politics of Dreaming -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996247980003316 |
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier
| Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier |
| Autore | Mittermaier Amira |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina | 154.63096216 |
| Soggetto topico |
Dream interpretation - Egypt
Dream interpretation -- Egypt Dreams - Egypt Dreams -- Egypt Dreams - Religious aspects - Islam Dreams -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Case studies Egypt - Religion Egypt -- Religion Ethnopsychology - Egypt Ethnopsychology -- Egypt Dreams - Islam - Religious aspects - Egypt Ethnopsychology Social Sciences Parapsychology & Occult Sciences |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-27738-7
9786613277381 0-520-94785-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- On Transliterations and Translations -- Prelude -- Introduction: Studying Dreams in Undreamy Times -- 1. Dream Trouble -- 2. Thresholds of Interpretation -- 3. Seeing the (In)visible -- 4. Poetry and Prophecy -- 5. The Ethics of the Visitational Dream -- 6. The Royal Road into the Unknown -- 7. Virtual Realities, Visionary Realities -- Afterword: On the Politics of Dreaming -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460147503321 |
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Mittermaier Amira
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree [[electronic resource] ] : A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land
| Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree [[electronic resource] ] : A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land |
| Autore | Najovits Simson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina | 932 |
| Soggetto topico |
Egypt -- Civilization
Egypt -- Religion Egypt |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-87586-201-2
0-585-49235-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Chapter 9. The Central Preoccupation of the Egyptian Religion: The Search for a Solution; to the Scandal of Death; Chapter 10. Polytheism, Theocracy and Politico- Religious Rivalry and the Advent of monotheising Chief Gods; Chapter 11. Akhenaten Invents the First Monotheism, Accompanied by the Amarna Art Revolution; Chapter 12. Egypto-Hebrew Relations: Supposed and Proven Egypto-Hebrew Connections and Their Central Issue; Chapter 13. The Apex of Egyptian Power and Its Subsequent Decline; Chapter 14. Egypt as a Hinge Society, a Link and an Influence - Authentic and Imaginary
Chapter 15. The Rediscovery of Egypt as the Trunk of the TreeSelected Bibliography; Glossary/Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455599803321 |
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Najovits Simson
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| New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree [[electronic resource] ] : A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land
| Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree [[electronic resource] ] : A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land |
| Autore | Najovits Simson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina | 932 |
| Soggetto topico |
Egypt -- Civilization
Egypt -- Religion Egypt |
| ISBN |
0-87586-201-2
0-585-49235-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Chapter 9. The Central Preoccupation of the Egyptian Religion: The Search for a Solution; to the Scandal of Death; Chapter 10. Polytheism, Theocracy and Politico- Religious Rivalry and the Advent of monotheising Chief Gods; Chapter 11. Akhenaten Invents the First Monotheism, Accompanied by the Amarna Art Revolution; Chapter 12. Egypto-Hebrew Relations: Supposed and Proven Egypto-Hebrew Connections and Their Central Issue; Chapter 13. The Apex of Egyptian Power and Its Subsequent Decline; Chapter 14. Egypt as a Hinge Society, a Link and an Influence - Authentic and Imaginary
Chapter 15. The Rediscovery of Egypt as the Trunk of the TreeSelected Bibliography; Glossary/Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780353703321 |
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Najovits Simson
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| New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree [[electronic resource] ] : A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land
| Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree [[electronic resource] ] : A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land |
| Autore | Najovits Simson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina | 932 |
| Soggetto topico |
Egypt -- Civilization
Egypt -- Religion Egypt |
| ISBN |
0-87586-201-2
0-585-49235-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Chapter 9. The Central Preoccupation of the Egyptian Religion: The Search for a Solution; to the Scandal of Death; Chapter 10. Polytheism, Theocracy and Politico- Religious Rivalry and the Advent of monotheising Chief Gods; Chapter 11. Akhenaten Invents the First Monotheism, Accompanied by the Amarna Art Revolution; Chapter 12. Egypto-Hebrew Relations: Supposed and Proven Egypto-Hebrew Connections and Their Central Issue; Chapter 13. The Apex of Egyptian Power and Its Subsequent Decline; Chapter 14. Egypt as a Hinge Society, a Link and an Influence - Authentic and Imaginary
Chapter 15. The Rediscovery of Egypt as the Trunk of the TreeSelected Bibliography; Glossary/Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827633503321 |
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Najovits Simson
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| New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt
| Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt |
| Autore | Quirke Stephen |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Somerset : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Disciplina | 299/.31 |
| Collana | Blackwell Ancient Religions Ser. |
| Soggetto topico | Egypt -- Religion |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781118610497
9781444332001 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Belief without a Book -- Word Worlds: Ancient and Modern -- Religion? -- Modern study of ancient worlds -- Three hurdles -- An ancient Egyptian definition of religion? The composition the King as Priest of the Sun -- Using written sources in context -- Language and politics -- Applying critical theory to Egyptology -- Future -- Elementals and Sources -- Landscape forces and resources -- Town and countryside -- Time-space blocks: ancient egypt as a chain of ecologies -- The time of kemet: dynasties and periods -- Preservation: geological and historical factors -- Beyond written sources: mudbrick architecture -- Ancient practice and modern prejudice in distinguishing elite and popular religion -- Suspending assumptions -- Netjeru deities: names and forms -- Evolutionary readings of ancient images -- Ancient and modern multiplication of forms of netjeru -- Visual forms as poetic metaphors -- Fission and fusion in names of netjeru -- Ancient descriptions of netjeru: hymns and narratives -- Instituting sacred space: the question of priesthood -- Checklist on assumptions -- Chapter 2 Finding the Sacred in Space and Time -- Holiness: Absolute or Relative -- The human body -- Living human geography: case-studies -- Chapter 3 Creating Sacred Space and Time: Temple Architecture and Festival -- Formalizing Sacred Space: For Offerings -- Range of different architectural types/engagements with ground -- Recipients of offerings -- Daily offering rituals -- Staff in offering spaces -- Kingship, temple offerings, and temple staff: in practice -- Kingship, initiation, and holders of sacred knowledge -- Formalizing Sacred Time: Festival, Feast, and Foundation -- Festival: not necessarily carnival -- Festivals at the lahun kingship temple (1800 bc).
Festival lists in monumental inscriptions -- Offerings at festivals: written evidence -- Feasting and offering in the archaeological record -- Founding a temple -- Chapter 4 Chaos and Life: Forces of Creation and Destruction -- Introduction -- Chaos and life: identifying and assessing evidence -- Myth as Speech in Religion -- Mythic thinking -- The myth debate in Egyptology -- Learning from storytelling: the only option? -- Learning from schemata information blocks? -- The weight of kingship in ancient Egyptian compositions -- Constellations Outside Writing -- Evidence beyond words and images? -- Principles, forces, and materials -- Small-scale carving as a widespread source of imagery -- Relations of fertility: movements of seasons, flood, and the return of the distant goddess -- Relations of physical regeneration from immobility: masculine desert, Min and Amun -- Sailings of the Sun -- Trusting the ferryman? Aggression and defense: fauna of danger and disorder -- Seth: animal fusion -- Predator as guardian: jackal deities -- Multiple fauna: images and bodies -- Child-god-king -- Images of order as single and as balance -- Speaking and Narrating the Divine -- A motif throughout temple ritual: offerings as the eye -- Myth in practice -- Local, central, or all-Egyptian? -- Narrative and image as accompaniments -- The Nut image: world description as accompaniment to burial space -- Ptah, Horus, and Seth: creation at Mennefer, the Shabako inscription -- Creation: centered on the Sun -- Place and process of creation -- Overcoming violence after creation: Horus against Seth -- The end of the world -- A longer narrative, 1150 bc: the judgement of Horus and Seth -- Two narratives -- Conclusion: icon, constellation, and tale -- Chapter 5 Being Good: Doing, Saying, and Making Good Possible -- Translating Ma'at -- Sources for Ethics. Damage as mirror of (In)justice -- Teachings and their limits -- Conclusion: combining the evidence types -- Chapter 6 Being Well -- Health and Well-Being: Starting from Comparative Ethnography -- Material health -- Health, healers, and healed: written evidence -- Writings for good health -- Intangibles -- Chapter 7 Attaining Eternal Life: Sustenance and Transformation -- Ancient Egyptian Afterlives: Sources and their Limits -- Reconsidering Modern Perceptions of Ancient Egyptian Afterlives -- Burying the Dead: Conceptions of the Tomb -- Burying, Caring for, and Relating to the Dead: Four Questions -- Burying the Dead: Chronological Survey -- 3100-2700 bc Underground provisions store, overground offering space -- 2600-2300 bc Underground blank, overground provisioning/leisure machines for the rich -- 2300-1850 bc Markers of age, gender, and status in the regions: underground and overground provisioning and leisure machines for the richest -- 1850-1700 bc Underground solar kingship or birth or leisure, overground provisioning? -- 1600-1350 bc Underground provisions store and leisure, overground provisioning/leisure -- 1350-1100 bc Underground protected space, overground devotion, provisions secondary? -- 1100-700 bc Underground protected space, sometimes leisure, overground devotion -- 700-525 bc Underground regeneration machine, overground devotion -- Centers of Writing or Drawing the Afterlife: Rituals and Eternal Regeneration -- Transforming into akh-Being -- Hegemony and Variety: Chronological Considerations -- From Theme to Integration: Futures of Study -- Bibliography -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Index -- End User License Agreement. |
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Quirke Stephen
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| Somerset : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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