- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Nubian Ethnological Survey
-
1 Nubian Resettlement and Anthropology -
2 Anthropological Encounters in Nubia -
3 After the Move - Introduction
- Ethnological Survey of Nubia
- Field Research in a Nubian Village
- The Kenuz
- Socioeconomic Implications of the Waterwheel in Adindan, Nubia
- The Influence of Space Relations on the Tribal Groupings of Korosko
- The Economic Basis of Egyptian Nubian Labor Migration
- Some Differential Factors Affecting Population Movement
- Gender Relations in Kenuz Public Domains
- The Village Community of al-Dirr, Nubia
- Change in Religion in a Resettled Nubian Community, Upper Egypt
- Problems of Nubian Migration
- Cross-Cultural Resettlement Administration
- Initial Adaptations to a New Life for Egyptian Nubians
- Community Health Aspects of Nubian Resettlement in Egypt
- Field Research and Training of Autochthonous People
- Nubian Culture and Ethnicity
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Appendix 1 List of Districts in Old Nubia -
Appendix 2 List of Interviews -
Appendix 3 Key Nubian Collaborators -
Appendix 4 PhDs Earned by Team Members - Bibliography
Socioeconomic Implications of the Waterwheel in Adindan, Nubia
Socioeconomic Implications of the Waterwheel in Adindan, Nubia
- Chapter:
- (p.123) Socioeconomic Implications of the Waterwheel in Adindan, Nubia
- Source:
- Nubian Encounters
- Author(s):
Nicholas S. Hopkins
Sohair R. Mehanna
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
In Adindan, the waterwheel system permeates all aspects of social and economic life. It irrigates the land and it also helps protect the land from becoming unusable through fragmentation. At the same time, it perpetuates and strengthens certain social and economic ties between members of the community. On the one hand, poverty and the inadequacy of resources encourages people to migrate and leave their land; on the other hand the desire to fully utilize existing resources leads the people to give up some of their individual rights. The waterwheel has helped create a method of partnership in the ownership of cows used to run the machine, and a useful system of land division, both of which strengthen the relationship of the various houses within families. The systems that relate to the waterwheel are quite rigid for a combination of mathematical as well as ecological reasons.
Keywords: cultivation, irrigation, cow ownership, land ownership, Ballana
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Nubian Ethnological Survey
-
1 Nubian Resettlement and Anthropology -
2 Anthropological Encounters in Nubia -
3 After the Move - Introduction
- Ethnological Survey of Nubia
- Field Research in a Nubian Village
- The Kenuz
- Socioeconomic Implications of the Waterwheel in Adindan, Nubia
- The Influence of Space Relations on the Tribal Groupings of Korosko
- The Economic Basis of Egyptian Nubian Labor Migration
- Some Differential Factors Affecting Population Movement
- Gender Relations in Kenuz Public Domains
- The Village Community of al-Dirr, Nubia
- Change in Religion in a Resettled Nubian Community, Upper Egypt
- Problems of Nubian Migration
- Cross-Cultural Resettlement Administration
- Initial Adaptations to a New Life for Egyptian Nubians
- Community Health Aspects of Nubian Resettlement in Egypt
- Field Research and Training of Autochthonous People
- Nubian Culture and Ethnicity
-
Appendix 1 List of Districts in Old Nubia -
Appendix 2 List of Interviews -
Appendix 3 Key Nubian Collaborators -
Appendix 4 PhDs Earned by Team Members - Bibliography
