Book
The Egyptian Nubian: a study in social symbiosis
American University in Cairo Press • Cairo, Egypt • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Geiser, Peter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document employs survey data in an examination of the extent to which Nubian labor migrants living in Cairo maintained and collectively shared the ideas, prescribed roles, attitudes and sentiments that characterize traditional Nubian society. Findings show maintenance of a strong sense of Nubian ethnic identity and attachment to the village communities that the migrants left behind. Two factors accounted for this continuity. One was the ability of labor migrants to speak Arabic and work for wealthy urbanites while maintaining their own households and building an autonomous ethnic community. The second is the availability of skilled Egyptian farmers interested in leasing the land left behind by migrants for a share of the harvest. This arrangement guaranteed the land tenure security of labor migrants and enabled them earn additional income as absentee landlords. The net effect was a pattern of labor migration that allowed for the continuity of Nubian culture while selectively adopting elements of the dominant Egyptian urban culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Demography
- History and culture change
- Settlement patterns
- Urban and rural life
- Income and demand
- Labor supply and employment
- Sodalities
- Family
- Cities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nubians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961-1965; 1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Aswan and Cairo governates, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter Geiser
- bibliographical references (p. 222-229)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86215870
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nubians--Egypt
- Egypt--Social conditions--1952-