Ritual, Symbolism and Social Cohesion. Hunting in Predynastic Egypt

Hunting has been understood on many occasions from an evolutionary perspective, as a stage prior to social, economic and political complexity. It is true that its contribution to the food sustenance of the Egyptian population decreased in predynastic times and that the relationship with wild, exotic...

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Autor principal: Pérez Largacha, Antonio
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA 2023
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Sumario:Hunting has been understood on many occasions from an evolutionary perspective, as a stage prior to social, economic and political complexity. It is true that its contribution to the food sustenance of the Egyptian population decreased in predynastic times and that the relationship with wild, exotic animals was ritualized with the materialization of an ideology or culture associated with the pharaoh, but hunting, like fishing, continued to provide products that were demanded by society. It is an activity that must be analyzed considering anthropological, archeological and artistic approaches to better understand its symbolism and presence in the cultural memory of Pharaonic Egypt.