Water, culture and identity : comparing past and present traditions in the Nile basin region /
Terje Oestigaard
- Bergen : BRIC Press, c2009.
- 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Nile Basin Research Programme. .
1. Water, culture and identity: comparing past and present traditions in the Nile basin region / Terje Oestigaard -- 2. Traditional values and uses of water along the upper Congo River / Raphael M. Tshimanga -- 3. Manica rock-art in contemporary society / Tore Saetersdal -- 4. Water, iron and soil in a matrix of culture: analysis of the prosperity of Milansi and Karagwe kingdoms, Tanzania / Bertram B.B. Mapunda -- 5. The dialogue between the River Nile and its hinterlands: Al Khandaq -- a desert terminal and a river port / Intisar Soghayroun Elzein Soghayroun -- 6. Christianity and Islam as Nile religions in Egypt: syncretism and continuity / Terje Oestigaard -- 7. Holy waters: Pre-Christian and Christian water association in Ethiopia / Niall Finneran -- 8. Water and the construction of social and religious identities in West Africa: an archaeological perspective / Timothy Insoll -- 9. Aquatic resource utilization and the emergence of pottery during the late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: a global perspective from the Nile to China / Randi Haaland -- 10. Neolithic adaptations and subsistence economy in the Middle Nile Region, Sudan / Azhari Mustafa Sadig.