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..
Abstract
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.
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Northern Africa
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field Date
- 1963-1964
- Coverage Date
- 1800-1972
- Coverage Place
- Aswan Governate, Egypt
- 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
- LCCN
- 76028115
- LCSH
- Villages--Nubia
- Villages--Egypt
- Ethnology--Nubia
- Ethnology--Egypt
- Nubia--Rural conditions
- Egypt--Rural conditions