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Nubians, separately identified according to regional languages, live in villages scattered along the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Their traditional economy depended on sorghum, wheat, and date palms; cash crops such as sugarcane and cotton have grown in importance. The raising of the Aswan Dam in 1933 submerged much of "Old Nubia" in Egypt, and most Nubians relocated to new villages north of the dam where they became increasingly dependent on income from an established pattern of labor migration to Cairo and other big cities in which they had built a reputation as hard-working and ethical. Increased rural-urban interaction led to additional religious syncretism, and to modifications in taboos in rites such as circumcision and marriage. Another round of resettlement in 1963 with the construction of the Aswan High Dam galvanized a sense of common ethnic identity and raised their political profile nationally.

Changes in Nubian wedding ceremonials

Culture Summary

Life-crisis rituals among the Kenuz

The Mehennab

'Had this been your face, would you leave it as it is?'

Nubians in Egypt

Epilogue

The Egyptian Nubian

Die Nubier

Struggle for change in a Nubian community

Mushahara

Nubian zar ceremonies as psychotherapy

Dhikr rituals and culture change

Circumcision and excision ceremonies

Nubian death ceremonies

Bibliography

Photographs

The Danagla traders of northern Sudan

Shatr Muhammad Shalashil

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Author	Title	Publication Date
al-Katsha, Samiha	Changes in Nubian wedding ceremonials	1978
Ammar, Nawal H.	Culture Summary	2021
Callender, Charles	Life-crisis rituals among the Kenuz	1971
Callender, Charles	The Mehennab	1966
El Guindi, Fadwa	'Had this been your face, would you leave it as it is?'	2006
Fernea, Robert A. (Robert Alan)	Nubians in Egypt	1991
Fernea, Robert A. (Robert Alan)	Epilogue	1991
Geiser, Peter	The Egyptian Nubian	1986
Herzog, Rolf	Die Nubier	1957
Kennedy, John G.	Struggle for change in a Nubian community	1977
Kennedy, John G.	Mushahara	1967
Kennedy, John G.	Nubian zar ceremonies as psychotherapy	1967
Kennedy, John G.	Dhikr rituals and culture change	1978
Kennedy, John G.	Circumcision and excision ceremonies	1978
Kennedy, John G.	Nubian death ceremonies	1978
Kennedy, John G.	Bibliography	1978
Kennedy, John G.	Photographs	1978
Omer, El Haj Abdalla Bilal	The Danagla traders of northern Sudan	1985
Shalashil, Shatr Muhammad	Shatr Muhammad Shalashil	1971

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