Most archaeological studies of frontiers and boundaries are informed by a colonialist
perspective of core-periphery relationships. In this review, we identify three problems with …

Summary 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 …

Building on recent criticisms of Romanization, this contribution formulates a systematic
critique of the concept of Egyptianization and suggests a different theoretical approach to …

Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age presents an explicitly anthropological perspective on
politics and social relationships. An anthropological reading of the textual and epigraphic …

I dedicate this book to my grandmothers, Pearl, Bobbie, and Dora, who love me
unconditionally and pray for me daily; to my dads, Rodney and Stuart who gave me a strong …

The process of epistemological de-colonization of the historiography and archaeology of
ancient Egypt and Nubia has begun unfolding only in the last two decades. It is still set in the …

The end of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean was a time of social, political, and
economic upheaval–conditions reflected, in many ways, in the world of Homer's Odyssey …

The Medjay were an elusive people whom Ancient Egyptian texts seem to refer to as either
an ethnic or an occupational group. In the early part of their history, they appear to have …

The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare covers the period from the emergence of the
Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century AD. The book is …

Questions concerning the basis of power and processes which lead to social stratification
have occupied anthropological research for decades, resulting in a number of competing …