Temples and hands: touch and contact between pharaonic and contemporary Egypt
Among the monumental columns and hypostyle rooms of the Egyptian temples, among thousands of hieroglyphs, gods, goddesses, pharaohs, royal families and priests, there are also some minimal stories that deserve and should be told. Exists around these monumental spaces, narratives and alternative prac...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/29089 |
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| Sumario: | Among the monumental columns and hypostyle rooms of the Egyptian temples, among thousands of hieroglyphs, gods, goddesses, pharaohs, royal families and priests, there are also some minimal stories that deserve and should be told. Exists around these monumental spaces, narratives and alternative practices to the global heritage and classical Egyptology, mediated by the actions of people who affect and are affected by these spaces. In this work, I will explore a special link between the contemporary population and the Pharaonic archaeological sites, in the area that currently comprises the Luxor Governorate (Arab Republic of Egypt). I will focus on a particular type of trace, the darkening of some hieroglyphs product of repeated hand contact. I will discuss the possibility that knowledge dispersed by an Egyptology that has been around for centuries, is captured and resignified by very powerful issues for that community such as giving life, fertility and the place of women. |
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