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Late Egypt and her neighbours : foreign population in Egypt in the first millennium BC
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ISBN: 9788392591917 8392591917 Year: 2009 Volume: 12 Publisher: Varsovie : Warsaw University, Faculty of Law and Administration : Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology, Dept. of Papyrology : Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation,

Ägypten und die Fremden im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrtausend
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ISBN: 3805329555 9783805329552 Year: 2003 Volume: 97 Publisher: Mainz : ©2003 Philipp von Zabern.

Enemies of civilization
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ISBN: 0791483703 1423748034 9781423748038 079146363X 9780791463635 0791463648 9780791463642 9780791483701 Year: 2005 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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Enemies of Civilization is a work of comparative history and cultural consciousness that discusses how "others" were perceived in three ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China. Each civilization was the dominant culture in its part of the world, and each developed a mind-set that regarded itself as culturally superior to its neighbors. Mu-chou Poo compares these societies' attitudes toward other cultures and finds differences and similarities that reveal the self-perceptions of each society.Notably, this work shows that in contrast to modern racism based on biophysical features, such prejudice did not exist in these ancient societies. It was culture rather than biophysical nature that was the most important criterion for distinguishing us from them. By examining how societies conceive their prejudices, this book breaks new ground in the study of ancient history and opens new ways to look at human society, both ancient and modern.

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