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Author Smith, Stuart Tyson, 1960-

Title Wretched Kush : ethnic identities and boundaries in Egypt's Nubian empire / Stuart Tyson Smith
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethnicity -- Nubia
Ethnicity -- Egypt
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Antiquities
Ethnicity
International relations
SUBJECT Nubia -- Relations -- Egypt
Egypt -- Relations -- Nubia
Nubia -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092935
Egypt -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041263
Subject Africa -- Nubia
Egypt
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003041385
ISBN 0203633822
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