1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493237103321

Autore

Boswell Rosabelle

Titolo

Le malaise créole : ethnic identity in Mauritius / / Rosabelle Boswell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-84545-075-2

1-78238-875-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

New directions in anthropology ; ; Volume 26

Disciplina

305.8009698/2

Soggetti

Creoles - Mauritius - Ethnic identity

Racism - Mauritius

Electronic books.

Mauritius Race relations

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

LE MALAISE CRÉOLE; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. UNRAVELLING LE MALAISE CRÉOLE; CHAPTER 2. ANTHROPOLOGY AT 'HOME'; CHAPTER 3. DEFINING CREOLES; CHAPTER 4. DIGNITY AND PRESTIGE IN FLACQ; CHAPTER 5. RE-VIEWING THE PAST IN KARINA; CHAPTER 6. IMAGINING HOMELANDS IN ROCHE BOIS AND THE RIVER CAMP; CHAPTER 7. NEGOTIATING LANDSCAPES IN CHAMAREL AND LE MORNE; CHAPTER 8. SHIFTING SELVES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785268203321

Autore

Kamil Jill

Titolo

Labib Habachi : the life and legacy of an Egyptologist / / Jill Kamil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo : , : American University in Cairo Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-61797-018-2

1-61797-377-7

1-936190-55-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans

Disciplina

932.007202

Soggetti

Egyptologists

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

9789774160615; 9789774160615

Sommario/riassunto

Labib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue biography of this important scholar, but a survey of Egyptian archaeology in the twentieth century in which Habachi's work is measured against that of his best-known contemporaries-among them Selim Hassan, Ahmed Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr, and Gamal Mokhtar.The account of Habachi's major disc