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.
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Nubian Ceremonial Life Studies in Islamic Syncretism and Cultural Change
December 1978, Univ of California Pr
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