Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire by Tyson Smith, Stuart

Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415369855)

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Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire by Tyson Smith, Stuart

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

$170.00
Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire by Tyson Smith, Stuart

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

$170.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Stuart Tyson Smith
ISBN-10: 0415369851
ISBN-13: 9780415369855
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2003
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.16w x 0.67d
By Stuart Tyson Smith
By Stuart Tyson Smith
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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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