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984729
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b739099
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Eyre, Christopher.
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The cannibal hymn : : a cultural and literary study /\ Christopher Eyre.
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| Publication Statement
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Liverpool :: Liverpool University Press,, 2002.
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1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) :: illustrations
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0853237069
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: 1417568070
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: 9780853237068
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: 9781417568079
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0853236968
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0853237069
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9780853236962
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-253) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 2: Translation; 3: The Textual Transmission of the Cannibal Hymn; 4: The Reconstruction of a Ritual; 5: The Literary Format of Ritual Texts: Performative Literary Form; 6: The Pictorial Format of Ritual: Iconic Representation; 7: Text Corpus and Placing on Wall; 8: Occasion of Performance: The Mythologisation of Reality; 9: Butchery and Offering Ritual; 10: Literary Form: Ritual Context and the 'Deritualisation' of Texts; 11: The Text of the Cannibal Hymn; 12: The Mythology of the Cannibal Hymn
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13: Cannibalism: Symbol and Reality14: The Economics of Rearing Meat; 15: Facilities for Slaughter; 16: Personal and Ritual Consumption; 17: Meat-feasting; Appendix: Hieroglyphic Text; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Passages
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The Cannibal Hymn forms a self-standing episode in the ritual anthology that makes up the Pyramid Texts, first appearing in the tomb of Unas at the end of the Fifth Dynasty. Its style and format are characteristic of the oral-recitational poetry of pharaonic Egypt, marked by allusive metaphor and the exploitation of wordplay and homophony in its verbal recreation of a butchery ritual. Christopher Eyre examines the text of the Cannibal Hymn in its performative and cultural context: the detailed mythologisation of the sacrificial process in this hymn poses key questions about the nature of rites.
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Animal sacrifice-- Egypt.
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Fasts and feasts-- Egyptian religion.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies-- Egypt.
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Future life.
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Incantations, Egyptian.
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Animal sacrifice.
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BODY, MIND SPIRIT-- Spirituality-- Paganism Neo-Paganism.
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Fasts and feasts-- Egyptian religion.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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Future life.
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Incantations, Egyptian.
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RELIGION-- Comparative Religion.
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Pyramid texts.
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Pyramid texts.
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Egypt.
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| Dewey Classification
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299.31
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PJ1553.E97 2002eb
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