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- catalog abstract ""Ethnic groups are often seen as distinctive, well-defined units. Yet recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are contested, manipulated and overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium B.C." "Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. He begins by using the tools of anthropology, examining the ancient Egyptian construction of ethnic identities with its stark contrast between civilized Egyptians and barbaric foreigners - those who made up the "Wretched Kush" of the title. "The book then turns to archaeological evidence for ethnicity on Egypt's southern frontier, in the fortress community at Askut and the pyramid cemetery at Tombos. The multiple dimensions of ethnic identities and boundaries are highlighted, as the author juxtaposes the political use of the ethnic "other" in texts and monumental art with archaeological patterns of mutual influence and intermarriage across ethnic boundaries. "With its combination of the latest theoretical and methodological developments in the social sciences with previously unpublished archaeological data, Wretched Kush is an original and important work for Egyptologists, archaeologists and anthropologists."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13027463.
- catalog coverage "Egypt Antiquities.".
- catalog coverage "Egypt Relations Nubia.".
- catalog coverage "Nubia Antiquities.".
- catalog coverage "Nubia Relations Egypt.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Ethnic groups are often seen as distinctive, well-defined units. Yet recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are contested, manipulated and overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium B.C." "Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. He begins by using the tools of anthropology, examining the ancient Egyptian construction of ethnic identities with its stark contrast between civilized Egyptians and barbaric foreigners - those who made up the "Wretched Kush" of the title.".
- catalog description ""The book then turns to archaeological evidence for ethnicity on Egypt's southern frontier, in the fortress community at Askut and the pyramid cemetery at Tombos. The multiple dimensions of ethnic identities and boundaries are highlighted, as the author juxtaposes the political use of the ethnic "other" in texts and monumental art with archaeological patterns of mutual influence and intermarriage across ethnic boundaries.".
- catalog description ""With its combination of the latest theoretical and methodological developments in the social sciences with previously unpublished archaeological data, Wretched Kush is an original and important work for Egyptologists, archaeologists and anthropologists."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Boundaries and ethnicity -- 2. Ethnicity in antiquity -- 3. Ethnicity and archaeology -- 4. Egypt and Nubia -- 5. Life at Askut -- 6. Death at Tombos -- 7. Ideology and the Pharaohs -- 8. Ethnicity, agency, and empire.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-224) and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 231 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415369851".
- catalog identifier "041536986X (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Relations Nubia.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt.".
- catalog spatial "Nubia Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Nubia Relations Egypt.".
- catalog spatial "Nubia.".
- catalog subject "303.48/23978032 21".
- catalog subject "DT159.6.N8 S65 2003".
- catalog subject "Ethnicity Egypt.".
- catalog subject "Ethnicity Nubia.".
- catalog subject "Excavations (Archaeology) Egypt.".
- catalog subject "Excavations (Archaeology) Nubia.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Boundaries and ethnicity -- 2. Ethnicity in antiquity -- 3. Ethnicity and archaeology -- 4. Egypt and Nubia -- 5. Life at Askut -- 6. Death at Tombos -- 7. Ideology and the Pharaohs -- 8. Ethnicity, agency, and empire.".
- catalog title "Wretched Kush : ethnic identities and boundaries in Egypt's Nubian empire / Stuart Tyson Smith.".
- catalog type "text".