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During The New Kingdom Egyptian Royal Anthropological Interpretation Of Funeral Culture

Posted on:2016-12-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330461971644Subject:World History
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The funeral culture development to the tripod with two handles peak during the New Kingdom of Ancient Egyptian. Royal funeral culture represents the highest level. Ancient Egypt is a country attaches great importance to the afterlife, religion provides support for the development of its funeral culture. Through the methods of ethnology interpretation of the development of ancient Egyptian Theology, it is a new angle to study the ancient Egyptian burial culture. Interpretation of the New Kingdom of funeral culture, In order to lay the foundation of ancient Egyptian Theology and national values. Analysis of the New Kingdom royal funeral culture from the perspective of Anthropology, not only reveals the royal funeral form of the substance and apparatus for the festival, but also contributes to the exploration under the influence of primitive religion of ancient Egyptians spiritual world. This paper interprets the New Kingdom royal funeral culture mainly includes 3 aspects.The first, Analysis of the New Kingdom Royal funeral and burial articles from building material culture. This is the initial stage of studying ancient Egyptian burial culture. In this part, using the comparative research method, typical Royal funeral buildings and artifacts to be explored. In this part, mainly summarized the characteristics during the New Kingdom Royal funeral building, mummies, coffins and funerary objects. Analysis of the superficial understanding of the New Kingdom royal funeral culture from the perspective of Anthropology.The second, this paper reviewed the performance of funeral culture in rituals and magic spells of the New Kingdom period. In the part respectively from three aspects of inquiry: the mausoleum building design and decoration 、 funeral ceremonies and specification、the generation and connotation of spells. This part summarizes the funeral culture in the construction of the system level and the implication of the New Kingdom.The last not least, the royal funeral culture research from material to spirit. This part focuses on the interpretation of the funeral culture reflected in the spiritual world of the ancient Egyptians.The main use of the theory of evolution in Cultural Anthropology Perspective, combined with the course of development of religion, the interpretation of the funeral culture in the interaction of the spirit level and the physical level.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ancient Egypt, The New Kingdom, Royal Funeral Culture, Ethnology, Afterlife
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