Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Translator’s Note xi
4. Introduction: Death and Culture 1
5. Part One. Images of Death
6. 1. Death as Dismemberment 23
7. 2. Death as Social Isolation 39
8. 3. Death as Enemy 64
9. 4. Death as Dissociation: The Person of the Deceased and Its Constituent Elements 87
10. 5. Death as Separation and Reversal 113
11. 6. Death as Transition 141
12. 7. Death as Return 164
13. 8. Death as Mystery 186
14. 9. Going Forth by Day 209
15. Part Two. Rituals and Recitations
16. 10. Mortuary Liturgies and Mortuary Literature 237
17. 11. In the Sign of the Enemy: The Protective Wake in the Place of Embalming 260
18. 12. The Night of Vindication 280
19. 13. Rituals of Transition from Home to Tomb 299
20. 14. Provisioning the Dead 330
21. 15. Sacramental Explanation 349
22. 16. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Resultativity and Continuance 369
23. 17. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Immortality 389
24. Afterword: Egypt and the History of Death 407
25. Notes 418
26. Index 479