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