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THE WALKING DEAD AT SAQQARA - LARA WEISS GEBUNDEN

Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research in religious studies 
especially for ancient Egypt. Still  we know relatively little about how people interacted in
daily life at the city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the late second millennium BCE.
By focussing on lived ancient religion  we can see that the social and religious strategies
employed by the individuals at Saqqara are not just means on the way to religious  post-mortem
salvation  nor is their self-representation simply intended to manifest social status. On the
contrary  the religious practices at Saqqara show in their complex spatiality a wide spectrum
of options to configure sociality before and after one's own death. The analytical distinction
between religion and other forms of human practices and sociality illuminates the range of
cultural practices and how people selected  modified  or even avoided certain religious
practices. As a result  pre-funerary  funerary and practices of the subsequent mortuary cults 
in close connection with religious practices directed towards other ancestors and deities 
allow the formation of imagined and functioning reminiscence clusters as central social groups
at Saqqara  creating a heuristic model applicable also to other contexts.

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