TY - JOUR
KW - Abu Simbel
KW - Aswan High Dam
KW - Dam building
KW - dams
KW - Egypt
KW - Nile Valley
KW - Nubia
KW - Nubian Culture and Tourism Festival
KW - Nubian Ethnological Survey
KW - Nubian Languages and Culture Project
KW - Nubian campaign
KW - Nubian languages
KW - Sudan
KW - Toponyms
KW - UNESCO
AU - Kirsty Rowan
AB - The construction in Egyptian Nubia of the Aswan High Dam in the mid-twentieth century motivated the biggest rescue operation of tangible heritage that has ever been undertaken in the world. However, no comparable focus was accorded to Nubia s intangible heritage, albeit a small team of ethnographers salvaged what they could in a very short amount of time. Nubia is an ancient land that stretches from the first cataract of the river Nile in Egypt to roughly the fourth cataract in the Republic of Sudan. At each of these cataracts there has been, and will be the construction of dams, which will result in the loss of the majority of the natural, material and cultural landscape of Nubia. Knowing how detrimental dam construction, and its concomitant displacement of the inhabitants, is to the continuity of their culture, the Nubians are initiating urgent safeguarding practices in response. These initiatives are assisted by a project team in the documentation, protection and promotion of Nubian languages and intangible heritage. This paper presents some of these current initiatives and highlights how the project fosters capacity for the Nubian community to act to keep their heritage alive.
BT - International Journal of Intangible Heritage
DO - 10.35638/ijih.2017..12.016
LA - English
M1 - 12
N1 - Publisher: National Folk Museum of Korea
N2 - The construction in Egyptian Nubia of the Aswan High Dam in the mid-twentieth century motivated the biggest rescue operation of tangible heritage that has ever been undertaken in the world. However, no comparable focus was accorded to Nubia s intangible heritage, albeit a small team of ethnographers salvaged what they could in a very short amount of time. Nubia is an ancient land that stretches from the first cataract of the river Nile in Egypt to roughly the fourth cataract in the Republic of Sudan. At each of these cataracts there has been, and will be the construction of dams, which will result in the loss of the majority of the natural, material and cultural landscape of Nubia. Knowing how detrimental dam construction, and its concomitant displacement of the inhabitants, is to the continuity of their culture, the Nubians are initiating urgent safeguarding practices in response. These initiatives are assisted by a project team in the documentation, protection and promotion of Nubian languages and intangible heritage. This paper presents some of these current initiatives and highlights how the project fosters capacity for the Nubian community to act to keep their heritage alive.
PY - 2017
SP - 175
EP - 187
T2 - International Journal of Intangible Heritage
TI - Flooded Lands, Forgotten Voices: Safeguarding the Indigenous Languages and Intangible Heritage of the Nubian Nile valley
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85026731181&partnerID=40&md5=5a81be4529a894cd7f3e3a079c0a48f4
VL - 12
SN - 19753586 (ISSN)
ER -