Etnicidad y territorio en el Egipto del Reino Antiguo

This book has been written during a period in which the media have not ceased to report on events, generally unpleasant, related to nationalism, xenophobia, ethnic cleansing, minority rights or the absorption of numerous idiosyncrasies and popular traditions in the homogenising roller that is, in many cases, world globalisation. The object of analysis of this work has, despite the chronological and spatial distances, many aspects in common with all these events, since it deals with two elements integrated within the identity of each ethnic group and/or nation. We refer, of course, to ethnicity or cultural identity and territoriality, which will be analysed here separately, although not in isolation. Both issues, especially the former, are becoming increasingly important in prehistoric and ancient studies. Some of its aspects even have a long historiographical tradition, as is the case of the processes and problems of assimilation and indigenism framed within the phenomenon of Romanisation1. These aspects, however, have scarcely been introduced in studies of ancient Egypt, especially with regard to its earliest stages. Egyptian ethnicity and territoriality, with the exception of a few very specific studies, have generally been dealt with in a very brief and elementary manner.