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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781459603321

Autore

El Shakry Omnia S. <1970->

Titolo

The great social laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt / / Omnia El Shakry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8047-8192-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

304.60962/0904

304.609620904

Soggetti

Social sciences - Study and teaching - Egypt - History - 19th century

Social sciences - Study and teaching - Egypt - History - 20th century

Social sciences - Research - Egypt

Egypt Intellectual life 19th century

Egypt Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.