Wretched Kush : ethnic identities and boundaries in Egypt's Nubian empire / Stuart Tyson Smith.

By:

Smith, Stuart Tyson, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 231 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0203633822
9780203633823
9780415369855
0415369851
9780415369862
041536986X
9786610073948
6610073945
9781134200948
1134200943
9781134200894
1134200897
9781134200931
1134200935
0203638824
9780203638828
1280073942
9781280073946

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wretched Kush.DDC classification:

303.48/23978032 22

LOC classification:

DT159.6.N8 S65 2003eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Chapter 1 Boundaries and ethnicity -- chapter 2 Ethnicity in antiquity -- chapter 3 Ethnicity and archaeology -- chapter 4 Egypt and Nubia -- chapter 5 Life at Askut -- chapter 6 Death at Tombos -- chapter 7 Ideology and the Pharaohs -- chapter 8 Ethnicity, agency, and empire.

Summary: Professor Smith uses the tools of anthropology to examine 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index.

Print version record.

Professor Smith uses the tools of anthropology to examine 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.

English.

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