Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page i (Black plate) Nubian Encounters Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page ii (Black plate) Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page iii (Black plate) Nubian Encounters The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 1961–1964 Edited by Nicholas S. Hopkins Sohair R. Mehanna The American University in Cairo Press Cairo New York Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page iv (Black plate) Photographs by Abdul Fattah Eid, except: 1, 3 (Courtesy American University in Cairo archives); 2, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22, 23, 25, 30 (Courtesy Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo); 17, 19, 20, 51, 52 (Courtesy Sylvia Kennedy); 21 (Courtesy Samiha El Katsha); and 24, 26, 27 (Courtesy Mohamed Riad). Copyright © 2010 by The American University in Cairo Press 113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt 420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 www.aucpress.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Dar el Kutub No. 2375/10 ISBN 978 977 416 401 9 Dar el Kutub Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 1961–1964/ Edited by Nicholas Hopkins and Sohair Mehanna.—Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010 p. cm. ISBN 978 977 416 401 9 1. Nubians2. Ethnology—Egypt I. Hopkins, Nicholas (ed.) II. Mehanna, Sohair (ed.) III. Title 962.3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 14 13 12 11 10 Designed by Jon W. Stoy Printed in Egypt Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page v (Black plate) In recognition of the imagination of Laila El-Hamamsy and Robert Fernea Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page vi (Black plate) Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page vii (Black plate) Contents List of Maps and Illustrations xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi The Nubian Ethnological Survey: History and Methods Nicholas S. Hopkins and Sohair R. Mehanna 1. Nubian Resettlement and Anthropology 3 2. Anthropological Encounters in Nubia 18 3. After the Move 55 The Nubian Ethnological Survey: Sample Publications 1960–1990 Introduction 81 Nicholas S. Hopkins and Sohair R. Mehanna Research Plans and Practices Ethnological Survey of Nubia: Statement of Purpose and Organization 85 Robert A. Fernea Field Research in a Nubian Village: The Experience of an Egyptian Anthropologist 91 Hussein M. Fahim vii Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page viii (Black plate) Nubia in the 1960s: Economics and Ecology The Kenuz 111 Charles Callender and Fadwa el Guindi Socioeconomic Implications of the Waterwheel in Adindan, Nubia 123 Abdul Hamid el Zein The Influence of Space Relations on the Tribal Groupings 141 of Korosko Mohamed Riad and Kawthar Abd El-Rasoul The Economic Basis of Egyptian Nubian Labor Migration 155 Thayer Scudder Some Differential Factors Affecting Population Movement: The Nubian Case 175 Peter Geiser Religion and Community Gender Relations in Kenuz Public Domains 193 Charles Callender The Village Community of al-Dirr, Nubia 199 Anna Hohenwart-Gerlachstein Change in Religion in a Resettled Nubian Community, Upper Egypt 209 Hussein M. Fahim Resettlement Problems of Nubian Migration 227 Mohamed Fikri Abdul Wahab Cross-Cultural Resettlement Administration: An Exploration of Potential Problems of Nubian Resettlement 237 Robert A. Fernea viii Contents Nubian_Encounters_Working.qxd:Hopkins 10/10/10 7:55 PM Page ix (Black plate) Initial Adaptations to a New Life for Egyptian Nubians 247 Robert A. Fernea and John G. Kennedy Community Health Aspects of Nubian Resettlement in Egypt 265 Hussein M. Fahim Reflections after the Move Field Research and Training of Autochthonous People: My Own Experience in Nubia 281 Anna Hohenwart-Gerlachstein Nubian Culture and Ethnicity 289 Robert A. Fernea and Aleya Rouchdy Appendices 1. List of Districts in Old Nubia 301 2. List of Interviews 303 3. Key Nubian Collaborators 305 4. PhDs Earned by Team Members 306 Bibliography Publications by Members of the NES Team and Affiliates 307 Related Works 317 Archival Collections 327 Contents ix