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Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire [Paperback]

Stuart Tyson Smith (Author)

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041536986X 978-0415369862 October 1, 2003

Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium BC.

By using the tools of anthropology, Smith examines 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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Stuart Tyson Smith is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He excavates in the Egyptian colonial cemetery in Tombos, Sudanese Nubia, and has acted as a consultant on several Hollywood movies featuring ancient Egypt.

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
foreigner topos, cooking assemblage, ethnic topos, palmetic acid, substantivist model, funerary cones, cosmetic equipment, pig taboo, functional assemblages, postcontact change, funerary beliefs, intact burials, culinary equipment, third cataract, colonial cemetery, thirteenth dynasty, extended burials, pilgrim flask, burial position, pit tombs, ethnic dynamics, elite residence, ethnic expression, serving vessels, redistributive system
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New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Upper Nubia, Dongola Reach, Gebel Barkal, Modern World System, Viceroy of Kush, Western Asia, Classic Kerma, Near Eastern, First Intermediate Period, Overseer of Foreign Lands, Papyrus Anastasi, Abu Simpel, Beth Shean, Brooklyn Museum, Egypt's Nubian, Medinet Habu, Native American, Valley of the Kings, Alexander Badawy, Barry Kemp, Battle of Qadesh, Belly of the Rock, Book of the Dead
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