Format:
1 online resource (259 pages)
ISBN:
9789047404163
Content:
Intro -- Figures and Table -- Preface -- Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Sources of Egyptian Biomedical Knowledge -- Magic and Processes of Science -- Egyptological Sources of Evidence -- Biological Sources of Evidence -- Ethnographic Sources of Evidence -- Chapter 2. Life and Death -- Egyptian Priests' Preoccupations with Problems of Death and Rebirth -- Textual Sources and Portrayals -- Rituals and Concepts -- Ka as a Concept Underlying Ritual -- Animal Associations with Life -- Animal Associations with Death -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Predynastic Egypt as 'Cattle Culture' -- Bos primigenius andWild Bull Hunts -- Cattle Domestication and Milk Drinking -- Pharaoh as Bull, People as Cattle -- Sun and Gods as Bulls -- Bovine Gods of Fertility and Power: Living Bull Gods -- Some Comparisons -- Bovine Sacrifice -- Egyptian Temple Herds and Cattle Wealth -- Baboons as Bulls -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4. The Approach of Comparative Biomedicine -- Analogy and Biomedical Progress -- Animal Dissections in Egypt -- Continuing Importance of Comparative Biomedicine -- TheMicrobiological Revolution -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5. 'Live Flesh': Rudiments of Muscle Physiology -- Motion and Irritability as Evidences of Life -- Opening-of-the-Mouth Ritual -- Laboratory Reenactment -- Ka as the Animating Principle -- Comparison of Ka to Nilotic Ring -- Other Comparisons -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Physiology of the Spine -- Spine and Life -- Keeping the Body Intact -- BoneMarrow and Life -- Particular Importance of Thoracic Vertebrae -- Meaning of Ankh -- Theories about Ankh's Origin -- † as Thoracic Vertebra -- Clinical Proof -- Spine and Death -- Mtwt and a Physiological Analogy between Opposites -- Comparative Findings -- The Principal Supporting Vertebrae for the Body -- Djed and Backbone -- ∏ as the Sacral and Lumbar Spine.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004123915
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004123915
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3003898
