Transition of Foreigners from Agents and Objects of Violence to Members of Society
Foreign acculturation could be the result of voluntary submission to the Egyptian ruler and subsequent passing through the status of hem-servant - a process that could involve participation in work details - a class from which unacculturated foreigners remain separate.[384] Passage through hemstatus as a means of Egyptianisation would also be the path of the properly instructed prisoner of war.
In pictorial representations of the fate of captives, the process of acculturation of prisoners of war marks a boundary between the unrestrained behaviour of the foreign captives and corresponding violence meted out to them by their Egyptian captors, and the ordered behaviour of the pacified and properly Egyptianised - albeit suitably deferential - foreigners and their now allied fellow Egyptians.[385] This need not necessarily be an egalitarian process; the concept of working into a civilised state, predicated on an assumption of a native idleness, figures in arguments for forced labour in viceregal Mexico, where the concept of the New World natives as persona miserable[386] corresponds to the common Egyptian use of the adjective ‘wretched' describing Nubia and Nubians. Acculturation through military service could involve a physical change such as branding, circumcision, the learning of Egyptian and ultimately the acquisition of land.[387]The foreigners could, at the same time, retain a peculiar identity in auxiliary military units.[388]
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