Stuart Tyson Smith

Wretched Kush (eBook, ePUB)

Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ethnic groups are often seen as distinctive, well-defined units. Yet recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are contested, manipulated and overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium BC.
Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. He begins by using the tools of anthropology, examining 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. The book then turns to archaeological evidence for ethnicity on Egypt's southern frontier, in the fortress community at Askut and the pyramid cemetery at Tombos. The multiple dimensions of ethnic identities and boundaries are highlighted as the author juxtaposes the political use of the ethnic "other" in texts and monumental art with archaeological patterns of mutual influence and intermarriage across ethnic boundaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134200931
• Artikelnr.: 47884287

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Boundries and Ethnicity
Chapter 2 Ethnicity in Antiquity: Ethnicity: Essential or Situational?
Bourdieu's Habitus and Ethnic Identity
Otherness and Ethnicity in Ancient Egypt
Chapter 3 Ethnicity and Archaeology: Finding Ethnicity in the Archaeological Record
Foodways and Ethnic Identity
Death and Ethnic Identity
Askut and Tombos
Chapter 4 Egypt and Nubia: Imperial Strategies and Native Agency
Bronze Age Center-Periphery Dynamics
Nubia in the Second Millenium B.C
Chapter 5 Life in Askut: Architecture
Material Culture
Ritual Contexts
Chapter 6 Death at Tombos: Architecture
Grave Goods
Ritual Practice
Chapter 7 Ideology and the Pharaohs: History or Propaganda?
Ethnic Stereotypes and Legitimization
Wretched Kush: Transmission of Ethnic Stereotypes
Chapter 8 Ethnicity
Agency and Empire: Women & Foodways at Askut
Monumentality and Display at Tombos
Was Kush 'Wretched'?