Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964
In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside their historic homeland. The goal was to record and analyze Nubian culture and social organization, to create a record for the future, and to preserve a body of information on which scholars and officials could draw. This book chronicles the research carried out by an international team with the cooperation of many Nubians. Gathered into one volume for the first time are reprinted articles that provide a valuable resource of research data on the Nubian project, as well as photographs taken during the field study that document ways of life that have long since disappeared.
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Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964
In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside their historic homeland. The goal was to record and analyze Nubian culture and social organization, to create a record for the future, and to preserve a body of information on which scholars and officials could draw. This book chronicles the research carried out by an international team with the cooperation of many Nubians. Gathered into one volume for the first time are reprinted articles that provide a valuable resource of research data on the Nubian project, as well as photographs taken during the field study that document ways of life that have long since disappeared.
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Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964

Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964

Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964
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Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964

Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964

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In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside their historic homeland. The goal was to record and analyze Nubian culture and social organization, to create a record for the future, and to preserve a body of information on which scholars and officials could draw. This book chronicles the research carried out by an international team with the cooperation of many Nubians. Gathered into one volume for the first time are reprinted articles that provide a valuable resource of research data on the Nubian project, as well as photographs taken during the field study that document ways of life that have long since disappeared.

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ISBN-13: 9781617973833
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, The
Publication date: 11/01/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 15 MB
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About the Author

Nicholas S. Hopkins is emeritus professor of anthropology and former Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo. Sohair Mehanna was a member of the Nubian Ethnological Survey, and has had a long career working in social research in Egypt.
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