Description
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
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/07/2003
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.16w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780415369855
ISBN10: 0415369851
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Archaeology
About the Author
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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