Nubian encounters : the story of the Nubian ethnological survey, 1961-1964 /
"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...
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التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Cairo ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2010.
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رقم الطلب: DT159.6 .N83 N83 2010
| الملخص: | "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"--Publisher |
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| وصف المادة: | "Dar el Kutub no. 2375/10"--Title page verso. |
| وصف مادي: | xxiii, 328 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-328). |
| ردمك: | 9774164016 9789774164019 |