"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." "With its combination of the latest theoretical and methodological developments in the social sciences with previously unpublished archaeological data, Wretched Kush is an original and important work for Egyptologists, archaeologists and anthropologists."--BOOK JACKET.