Nubian Ethnographies - Softcover

Fernea, Robert A.; Rouchdy, Aleya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881334804 ISBN 13: 9780881334807

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Written from several perspectives, the majority of this ethnographic collection chronicles the period of Nubian history in the 1960s just before 50,000 Egyptian Nubians were moved from their ancestral home along the Upper Nile due to the building of the Aswan High Dam and the rising waters it backed up. The first half, by Elizabeth Fernea, is an engaging personal account of the experience and process of fieldwork in Nubia and the author's interaction with Nubian society. The focus is on the lives of the Nubian women and children--their place in the wider society, their customs and beliefs, social life, attitudes toward health and child care. The second half, by Robert Fernea, is an ethnography providing a descriptive overview of Nubian society and culture--the result rather than the experience of fieldwork. An up-to-date concluding essay discusses what has happened to the Nubian peoples since their resettlement.

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From the Publisher:

Also by Elizabeth Fernea and available from Waveland Press: A Street in Marrakech: A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0881334804
• ISBN 13: 9780881334807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 203