{"title":"The Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources","authors":"Silvia Zago","doi":"10.1086/721488","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Landscape may be defined broadly as the ensemble of “all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.”1 Yet not only do landscapes comprise natural topographical features, they are also mediated and shaped by the multifaceted set of human experiences through space and time, and thus convey meanings embedded in the socio-cultural values typical of the civilizations which originated and thrived in those landscapes. Therefore, landscapes are culturally defined entities—and culturally specific ones—as much as they are physical spaces, both generated and molded by human perceptions and experiences.2 Indeed, landscapes are symbolic constructions,","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721488","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Landscape may be defined broadly as the ensemble of “all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.”1 Yet not only do landscapes comprise natural topographical features, they are also mediated and shaped by the multifaceted set of human experiences through space and time, and thus convey meanings embedded in the socio-cultural values typical of the civilizations which originated and thrived in those landscapes. Therefore, landscapes are culturally defined entities—and culturally specific ones—as much as they are physical spaces, both generated and molded by human perceptions and experiences.2 Indeed, landscapes are symbolic constructions,
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Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years published contributions from scholars of international reputation on the archaeology, art, history, languages, literatures, and religions of the Near East. Founded in 1884 as Hebraica, the journal was renamed twice over the course of the following century, each name change reflecting the growth and expansion of the fields covered by the publication. In 1895 it became the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and in 1942 it received its present designation, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. From an original emphasis on Old Testament studies in the nineteenth century.
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