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El Shakry Omnia S. <1970-> |
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Titolo |
The great social laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt / / Omnia El Shakry |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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304.60962/0904 |
304.609620904 |
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Soggetti |
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Social sciences - Study and teaching - Egypt - History - 19th century |
Social sciences - Study and teaching - Egypt - History - 20th century |
Social sciences - Research - Egypt |
Electronic books. |
Egypt Intellectual life 19th century |
Egypt Intellectual life 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-318) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Knowledge Production; Part I: The Anthropology of the Modern Egyptians: From the Fin-de-Siècle to the Second World War; 1: The Ethnographic Moment; 2: Anthropology's Indigenous Interlocutors: Race and Egyptian Nationalism; Part II: From Ethnographic Realism to Social Engineering: The Problem of the Peasantry, 1925-1945; 3: The Painting of Rural Life; 4: Rural Reconstruction: The "Road to a New Sanitary Life"; Part III: The Problem of Population, 1925-1945 |
5: Barren Land and Fecund Bodies: The Emergence of Population Discourse in Interwar Egypt6: Body Politics: Gender, Reproduction, and Modernity; Part IV: The Revolutionary Moment; 7: Etatism: Theorizing Egypt's 1952 Revolution; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book charts the development of the social sciences-anthropology, human geography, and demography-in colonial and postcolonial Egypt, exploring the broader significance of knowledge production and its relationship to colonialist and nationalist ideologies. |
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