The impact of immigration on women: The Sudanese Nubian case

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Notes

Definitions and descriptions of some of the terms that I have used in this brief paper have alone occupied pages of my previous works (e.g., “The Ethnic Identity of Sudanese Nubians,” Meroitica [Berlin] 5 (1979) 165–172). “Nubia” is itself a vague regional term which describes an area along the Nile in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan. Together, Nubians and Arabs form the dominant Muslim “core culture” of Sudan, sometimes referred to as “the central riverain culture”. The ethnography of Nubians and Arabs is so tightly interwoven that ethnographers consider these two ethnic groups together in order to separate them. In the context of my research interviews, however, Nubians and Arabs considered themselves as distinct from the other, the former referring to themselves variably as “Kushitic” (Kingdom of Kush). “Hamitic” (descendants of Ham), or “African” (i.e. pre‐Islamic/Arab).