Ritual Landscape and Performance

Ritual Landscape and Performance
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Publisher : Yale Egyptology
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781950343133
ISBN-13 : 1950343138
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Book Synopsis Ritual Landscape and Performance by : Christina Geisen

Download or read book Ritual Landscape and Performance written by Christina Geisen and published by Yale Egyptology. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual Landscape and Performance contains the peer-reviewed Egyptological contributions from the homonymous conference held at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations of Yale University on September 23-24, 2016. The various articles discuss the use of ritual landscape from the Old to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, as well as Aniba in Nubia. Further contributions elucidate the interaction of desert and the Nile Valley through rock art, the depictions of watery environments in the delta and their association to rituals, as well as the habitation of landscapes using the example of southern Middle Egypt.


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