Nubian Ceremonial Life
Subtitle: Studies in Islamic Syncretism and Cultural Change
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: December 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789774249556
Subjects: Ethnography; Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; History; History: World; Egypt; Sociology - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Ancient - Egypt
First sentence: It is perhaps indicative of the attitudes of our times that, with the building of the High Dam at Aswan, Egypt generated a worldwide movement to save the ancient monuments of Nubia, but stimulated practically no effort to document the culture of the living Nubians.