Usted buscó: who are you doing (Chino (Simplificado) - Inglés)

what are you doing
what are you doimg

how are you
里侧有

are you a girl
are you girl or boy

are you chinese?
no

are you not chinese?
no, i am from the uk

are you ok with the beer
are you ohk with the drink

the thesis that underlies this book can be reduced to an extremely simple formula: death is the origin and the center of culture. my aim is to illustrate this thesis employing ancient egyptian culture as my example. when it comes to the importance of death, this culture is admittedly an extreme example. but this has largely to do with the fact that we view ancient egypt from the standpoint of a culture that is equally extreme, but in the opposite direction. from the point of view of comparative anthropology, it is we, not the ancient egyptians, who are the exception. few cultures in this world exclude death and the dead from their reality as radically as we do. living with the dead and with death is one of the most normal manifestations of human culture, and it presumably lies at the heart of the stuff of human existence. in this book, i thus pursue three matters of concern. one, and this is the most important, is to supply an introduction to the conceptual world of ancient egyptian mortuary religion, to which the unusually large number of preserved texts afford us a privileged entrée. in ancient egypt, mortuary religion was not simply one area of cultural praxis among others, such as the cult of the gods, economy, law, politics, literature, and so forth. rather, in this case, we are dealing with a center of cultural consciousness, one that radiated out into many—we might almost say, in
the thesis that underlies this book can be reduced to an extremely simple formula: death is the origin and the center of culture. my aim is to illustrate this thesis employing ancient egyptian culture as my example. when it comes to the importance of death, this culture is admittedly an extreme example. but this has largely to do with the fact that we view ancient egypt from the standpoint of a culture that is equally extreme, but in the opposite direction. from the point of view of comparative