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020 _a 9788274530805
050 _a DT365.5
_b .W38 2009
245 _aWater, culture and identity :
_b comparing past and present traditions in the Nile basin region /
_cTerje Oestigaard
260 _aBergen :
_bBRIC Press,
_c c2009.
300 _a 272 pages :
_b illustrations ;
_c25 cm
440 _pNile Basin Research Programme.
521 _a 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.
650 _vAfrica, Eastern -- History. Africa, Eastern.
942 _2lcc
_cBOOKS
999 _c5576
_d5576