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Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs: Past and Present Approaches in Egyptology
Uroš Matić
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Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs deals with ancient Egyptian concept of collective identity, various groups which inhabited the Egyptian Nile Valley and different approaches to ethnic identity in the last two hundred years of Egyptology. The aim is to present the dynamic processes of ethnogenesis of the inhabitants of the land of the pharaohs, and to place various approaches to ethnic identity in their broader scholarly and historical context. The dominant approach to ethnic identity in ancient Egypt is still based on culture historical method. This and other theoretically better framed approaches (e.g. instrumentalist approach, habitus, postcolonial approach, ethnogenesis, intersectionality) are discussed using numerous case studies from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BC. Finally, this Element deals with recent impact of third science revolution on archaeological research on ethnic identity in ancient Egypt.
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Cover
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Title page
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Imprints page
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Abstract page
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Contents
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Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs
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1 Introduction
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1.1 The Categories of Evidence
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1.2 Terms
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1.3 Being Egyptian and Being Foreign: Over 3000 Years of Ethnogenesis
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2 From Race to Culture and People: Egyptology of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
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2.1 Egyptology and Scientific Racism
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2.1.1 Craniometry
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2.1.2 The Hamitic Question
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2.1.3 Scientific Racism and Ancient Egyptian Depictions of Foreigners
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2.2 Egyptology, Culture-Historical Archaeology and Ethnic Identity
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2.3 A Hidden Theory
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3 Ethnic Identity: Recent Perspectives in Egyptology
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3.1 Primordial Approach
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3.2 Instrumentalist Approach
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3.3 Topos and Mimesis: A Structuralist Approach
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3.4 Egyptianness and Foreignness: Habitus and Ethnic Identity
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3.5 Postcolonial Theory and Ethnic Identity
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3.5.1 Hybridism
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3.5.2 Mimicry
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3.5.3 Third Space
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3.6 Intersectionality
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4 Third Science Revolution
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4.1 Archaeology and the Third Science Revolution
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4.2 Egyptology and Third Science Revolution
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5 Concluding Remarks
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References
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Acknowledgements
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Ancient Egypt in Context
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Ancient Egypt in Context
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Elements in the Series
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Citable Link
Published: 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9781108794466 (paper)
- 9781108888585 (ebook)