03340nam 2200685Ia 450 991045697790332120200520144314.00-8047-8192-310.1515/9780804781923(CKB)2550000000040862(EBL)735412(OCoLC)743693305(SSID)ssj0000523006(PQKBManifestationID)11376284(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523006(PQKBWorkID)10540170(PQKB)10195521(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127797(MiAaPQ)EBC735412(DE-B1597)564721(DE-B1597)9780804781923(Au-PeEL)EBL735412(CaPaEBR)ebr10484210(OCoLC)1198931959(EXLCZ)99255000000004086220070327d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe great social laboratory[electronic resource] subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt /Omnia El ShakryStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20071 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-9331-X 0-8047-5567-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-318) and index.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, 1925-19455: 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; IndexThis 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.Social sciencesStudy and teachingEgyptHistory19th centurySocial sciencesStudy and teachingEgyptHistory20th centurySocial sciencesResearchEgyptEgyptIntellectual life19th centuryEgyptIntellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.Social sciencesStudy and teachingHistorySocial sciencesStudy and teachingHistorySocial sciencesResearch304.60962/0904304.609620904El Shakry Omnia S.1970-1049396MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456977903321The great social laboratory2478365UNINA