God, Father and Intermediate: the function of Amun in Hatshepsut's discourse

Authors

  • Rafael dos Santos Pires Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v11i2p1-29

Keywords:

New Kingdom, Hatshepsut, Religion, Politcs, Kinship

Abstract

We focus on the analysis of how religion is involved in building politics in the early New Kingdom Egyptian society (c. 1550-1425 BC) through the official discourses concerning the royalty. Many times the relationship between politics and religion is set through kinships, as we try to show along this paper. We chose as case-study the pharaoh Hatshepsut’s context (c. 1479-1458 BC) and the narrative about her conception placed in the mortuary temple of Deir el-Bahari, since it has political and religious elements. This approach allows us to look how the religious, political and kinship spheres exercise influence on the construction and maintenance of the Egyptian’s state discourse of this time.

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Author Biography

  • Rafael dos Santos Pires, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

    Mestrando em História Social pela Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo, Brasil. Membro do Laboratório do Antigo Oriente Próximo da Universidade de São Paulo.

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Published

2020-12-08

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2020)

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Dossier

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God, Father and Intermediate: the function of Amun in Hatshepsut’s discourse. (2020). Mare Nostrum, 11(2), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v11i2p1-29

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