For the Living and the Dead ：The Funerary Laments of Upper Egypt, Ancient and Modern

Publication subTitle ：The Funerary Laments of Upper Egypt, Ancient and Modern

Author： Wickett Elizabeth

Publisher： I.B.Tauris‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9780857712684

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781848850507

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword：社会学,社会生活与社会问题

Language： ENG

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Chapter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part I. The Ethnography of Lament: An Introduction to the cidid

1. 'They go down barefoot like us, the women scorned': The Laments of Kom Lolah

2. Strange Contexts: The Laments of Luxor and Edfu

3. Life in the Women's Domain

4. Contemporary Lament Performace: The Funeral and the Mourning

Part II. How Laments Acquire Meaning

5. The Hermeneutics of Lament: Signs, Symbols and Referents

6. The Performance of Emotion: Rhetoric, Authenticity and the Boundaries of Grief

7. The Contemporary Laments: Concordance and Thematic Analysis

Part III. The Cosmology of the Afterlife

8. Ancient Egyptian Lamentation: Kinesics, Performance and the Semiotics of Gesture

9. The 'Pyramid Texts': Orality, Structure and Cosmology

10. Cosmologies of Lament: From Ancient to Modern

11. Towards a Cosmology of the Afterlife: Continuities and Transformations

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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