Sobre bienes de prestigio, orden y caos. El Estado egipcio y sus periferias durante el período Dinástico Temprano (ca. 3000-2700 a.C.)

CAMPAGNO, MARCELO

Antiguos contactos. Relaciones de intercambio entre Egipto y sus periferias

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2004; p. 41 - 69

Throughout the Early Dynastic Period, the Egyptian State consolidates a double way of relationship with peripheral regions. On the one hand, such regions will be treated as providers of goods required by the State elite and not available in the area under its direct dominion, a policy which prolongs a perception of peripheries that goes back to pre-State times. On the other hand, in coincidence with the stabilization of the idea of Egypt as a dual unity integrated by Nile’s valley and delta, peripheries will be conceived as essentially negative realms, outside the cosmos guaranteed by the king and, therefore, potentially hostile to the Egyptian order, all of which justified the military and ritual attacks on them.