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By Nicholas S. Hopkins, Sohair R. Mehanna

Within the Sixties the development of the Aswan excessive Dam occasioned the pressured displacement of a big a part of the Nubian inhabitants. starting in 1960, anthropologists on the American collage in Cairo's Social examine heart undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and people already outdoors their historical place of origin. The objective was once to checklist and study Nubian tradition and social association, to create a list for the long run, and to maintain a physique of knowledge on which students and officers may perhaps draw. This e-book chronicles the examine conducted by way of a global workforce with the cooperation of many Nubians.

Gathered into one quantity for the 1st time are reprinted articles that supply a priceless source of analysis information at the Nubian venture, in addition to pictures taken through the box learn that rfile methods of existence that experience lengthy because disappeared.

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The details of both will need clearance in Cairo. We will anticipate at least three years of service” (Callender archives, NAA). Lucie Wood [Saunders] was recruited through Conrad Arensberg of Columbia University, where she had earned her PhD in 1959 with a library thesis on parallel cousin marriage among Arabs; in the end she decided not to join the Nubian project but to orient herself toward the study of a Delta village. Jane Philips, who came from Columbia with a PhD in anthropology based on medical anthropology research in Lebanon (1958), was also recruited.

The “nets” were the surveys of all Nubia, including its urban colonies as well as analyses of the Nubian community as a whole, while the “anchors” were the intensive community studies in different localities (eventually four). No text by Fernea uses this metaphor, but it was attributed to him by the Ford Foundation evaluator Harvey Hall, and it is particularly apt. In more formal language Fernea noted that, “Both the community study and the general survey approaches have been used in complementary fashion” (1963:122).

24 Traveling there was an adventure, and it was also considered dangerous, and the families of the assistants were sometimes reluctant to let them join the project. Nawal el-Messiri’s brother made an exploratory trip to confirm that it was safe for his sister, and Bahiga Haikal could only go after her sister Fayza had been there on an archaeological expedition. 25 Fernea and Hamamsy shared responsibility for the management of the project. Hamamsy was responsible for the direction of the SRC and overall supervision, and Fernea oversaw the survey itself.

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