LEADER 03340nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910456977903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-8192-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804781923 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040862 035 $a(EBL)735412 035 $a(OCoLC)743693305 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000523006 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376284 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523006 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10540170 035 $a(PQKB)10195521 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127797 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC735412 035 $a(DE-B1597)564721 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804781923 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL735412 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10484210 035 $a(OCoLC)1198931959 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040862 100 $a20070327d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe great social laboratory$b[electronic resource] $esubjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt /$fOmnia El Shakry 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-9331-X 311 $a0-8047-5567-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-318) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Knowledge Production; Part I: The Anthropology of the Modern Egyptians: From the Fin-de-Sie?cle 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 327 $a5: 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 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aSocial sciences$xStudy and teaching$zEgypt$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial sciences$xStudy and teaching$zEgypt$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial sciences$xResearch$zEgypt 607 $aEgypt$xIntellectual life$y19th century 607 $aEgypt$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xStudy and teaching$xHistory 615 0$aSocial sciences$xStudy and teaching$xHistory 615 0$aSocial sciences$xResearch 676 $a304.60962/0904 676 $a304.609620904 700 $aEl Shakry$b Omnia S.$f1970-$01049396 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456977903321 996 $aThe great social laboratory$92478365 997 $aUNINA