book chapter
Struggle for change in a Nubian community: an individual in society and history
Mayfield Pub. Co. • Palo Alto, Calif. • Published In 1977 • Pages: x, 194
By: Kennedy, John G., Fahim, Hussein M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of socioeconomic changes in a government-planned village for resettling Nubian farmers in Egypt whose lands were submerged by the Aswan High Dam begins by providing a broad historical and ethnographic background. Comparison of living conditions at the time of the foundation of the village in 1963 to comparable data collected in 1972 shows significant improvements in the economic conditions of settlers, including the provision of modern housing, water pumps and roads. However, the success of the village is less attributable to infrastructure improvements by government planners than to an influential village leader who mobilized the inhabitants to take collective action.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Economic planning and development
- Water supply
- Settlement patterns
- Urban and rural life
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender status
- Marriage
- Community
- Religious practices
- Ecclesiastical organization
- Gender roles and issues
- 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 chapter
- 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
- 1963-1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Aswan Governate, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- John G. Kennedy ; with the assistance of Hussein M. Fahim
- Personal narrative of Shatr Muhammad Shalashil (p. 69-169) is in a separate document
- bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76028115
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Villages--Nubia
- Villages--Egypt
- Ethnology--Nubia
- Ethnology--Egypt
- Nubia--Rural conditions
- Egypt--Rural conditions