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The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called 'popular' or 'pop' culture (cinema, genre fiction, TV-series, comics, graffiti, computer and video games, rock and heavy music, radio serials, among others) often makes use of narratives and motifs drawn from the observation and study of ancient Egypt, updated and reinterpreted in various ways, and which is now the subject of study by scholars of Egyptology. The present monograph seeks to provide new evidence of this interdisciplinarity between Egyptology and popular culture. It explores the conscious reinterpretation of the past in the work of contemporary authors, who shape an image of the Egyptian reality that in each case is determined by their own circumstances and contexts.

History / Ancient / Egypt --- Social Science / Media Studies --- Social sciences --- Ancient Egypt --- Popular Culture --- Egyptomania --- Cultural Reception --- To 332 B.C. --- Egypt --- Égypte --- Egypt. --- Social life and customs --- In literature. --- Mythology --- In motion pictures. --- Mœurs et coutumes --- Dans la littérature.

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"A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells, paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy's lyrical and compassionate account of changing death practices in America as people face their own mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife.As an anthropologist and archaeologist, Dawdy knows that how a society treats its dead yields powerful clues about its beliefs and values. As someone who has experienced loss herself, she knows there is no way to tell this story without also reexamining her own views about death and dying. In this meditative and gently humorous book, Dawdy embarks on a transformative journey across the United States, talking to funeral directors, death-care entrepreneurs, designers, cemetery owners, death doulas, and ordinary people from all walks of life. What she discovers is that, by reinventing death, Americans are reworking their ideas about personhood, ritual, and connection across generations. She also confronts the seeming contradiction that American death is becoming at the same time more materialistic and more spiritual.Written in conjunction with a documentary film project, American Afterlives features images by cinematographer Daniel Zox that provide their own testament to our rapidly changing attitudes toward death and the afterlife"--

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Death --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- United States. --- Align (company). --- Ambrose Bierce. --- Ancient Egypt. --- Apotheosis. --- Archaeology. --- Aunt. --- Bone china. --- Buddhism. --- Burial. --- California. --- Carbon footprint. --- Casket. --- Cemetery. --- Coffin. --- Commodification. --- Conservative Judaism. --- Convenience. --- Cremation. --- Crematory. --- Cryonics. --- Customer. --- Day of the Dead. --- Death mask. --- Death. --- Disenchantment. --- Eastern philosophy. --- Egyptomania. --- Embalming chemicals. --- Embalming. --- Embrace Life. --- Espresso machine. --- Euthanasia. --- Fantasy coffin. --- Field hospital. --- Forestry. --- Foyer. --- Friendship. --- Funeral director. --- Funeral home. --- Geologist. --- Grandparent. --- Grief. --- Gumball machine. --- Headstone. --- His Family. --- Homegoing. --- Hospice. --- Hospital bed. --- Humility. --- Iconography. --- In Death. --- Indulgence. --- Islamic funeral. --- John Doe. --- Kübler-Ross model. --- LifeGem. --- Liminality. --- Magical thinking. --- Mass media. --- Mass production. --- Morgue. --- Mourner. --- Mourning. --- Ms. --- Natural burial. --- Occult. --- Overcrowding. --- Ownership. --- Post-mortem photography. --- Pottery. --- Prescription bottle. --- Protestantism. --- Puritans. --- Real property. --- Reality television. --- Religion. --- Rigor mortis. --- Romanticism. --- Shamanism. --- Sharon Osbourne. --- Social control. --- Social death. --- Social movement. --- Soft tissue. --- Special Period. --- Taphophobia. --- Tattoo. --- Terminal illness. --- Thanatology. --- The American Way of Death. --- The Denial of Death. --- The Easy Way. --- The Loved One. --- Tidbit. --- Trowel. --- Unmarked grave. --- Value (economics). --- Viewing (funeral). --- Willy Wonka. --- Zombie.