{"product_id":"dining-and-death-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-the-funerary-banquet-in-ancient-art-burial-and-belief-9789042932517","title":"Dining and Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the 'Funerary Banquet' in Ancient Art, Burial and Belief","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together papers covering a wide range of regions and        periods, from Italy to China, and Old Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire,        all focusing on the interpretation of banqueting imagery in funerary        contexts. The papers largely concentrate on pictorial depictions of        banqueting and\/or food offerings and how they might be understood in        such settings, although some papers consider tomb deposits and        furnishings. Traditionally, three main interpretative paradigms have        been employed in 'deciphering' such images: 1) they represent wordly        activities, either quotidien or idealised, 2) they represent an imagined        pleasant afterlife (and therefore evidence this belief) and 3) they        represent funerary or mortuary rites. Such interpretations have been        challenged by scholarship that refutes the validity of these strict,        divisive categories, but in concentrating on social structures embedded        in the images, has tended to eschew potential eschatological aspects of        meaning. Collectively, the papers here reconsider this matter, making        significant contributions to discussions of ambiguity, agency,        interaction, performance, the issue of 'meaning', and the various ways        in which images can be approached and used.","brand":"Peeters Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52091864678743,"sku":"9789042932517","price":110.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dining-and-death-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-the-funerary-banquet-in-ancient-art-burial-and-belief-9789042932517","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}