LEADER 05083nam 2200709 450 001 9910823401303321 005 20230120124353.0 010 $a1-4175-2301-8 010 $a1-61797-253-3 010 $a1-61797-497-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000575872 035 $a(EBL)1649001 035 $a(OCoLC)880826182 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139473 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12000701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139473 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10011009 035 $a(PQKB)10813396 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1635678 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10983535 035 $a(OCoLC)927198800 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1635678 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6242546 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000575872 100 $a20141118h20011998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDirections of change in rural Egypt /$fedited by Nicholas S. Hopkins, Kirsten Westergaard ; contributors, Mohamed Hassan Abdel Aal [and twenty-one others] 205 $aPaperback edition. 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cThe American University in Cairo Press,$d2001. 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (646 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a977-424-663-2 311 $a1-322-29753-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Weights and Measures; Abbreviations; Introduction: Directions of Change in Rural Egypt Nicholas Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard; I. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RURAL EGYPT; 1. The Market's Place Timothy Mitchell; 2. The Evolution of Agrarian Structures in Egypt: Regional Patterns of Change in Farm Size Francois Ireton; 3. Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Relocation of Rural Egyptian Workers and their Discontent James Toth 327 $a4. Facing Structural Adjustment: Strategies of Peasants, the State, and the International Financial Institutions Ray BushII. CULTURAL REPRESENTATION: IDENTITY; 5. Hegemony in the Periphery: Community and Exclusion in an Upper Egyptian Village Reem Saad; 6. The Northwest Coast: A Part of Rural Egypt? Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole; III. CULTURAL REPRESENTATION: CONSUMPTION; 7. Television and the Virtues of Education: Upper Egyptian Encounters with State Culture Lila Abu-Lughod; 8. Conflict or Cooperation: Changing Gender Roles in Rural Egyptian Households Kamran Asdar Ali 327 $a9. The Vision of a Better Life: New Patterns of Consumption and Changed Social Relations Kirsten Haugaard BachIV. HEALTH; 10. Being Sickly or Eating Well: The Conceptualization of Health and Ill-Health in an Upper Egyptian Village Hania Sholkamy; 11. Health Units in Rural Egypt: At the Forefront of Health Improvement or Anachronisms? Sohair Mehanna and Peter Winch; V. VILLAGE HISTORIES; 12. Change and Continuity in the Village of Batra: Family Strategies Malak S. Rouchdy; 13. Spaces of Poverty: The Geography of Social Change in Rural Egypt Detlef Miiller-Mahn 327 $aVI. DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF THE MARKET AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS14. Farmers and Cooperatives in the Era of Structural Adjustment Mohamed H. Abdel Aal; 15. Rural Periodic Markets in Egypt Mohamed M. Mohieddin; 16. Agro-Pastoralism and Development in Egypt's Northwest Coast Donald P. Cole and Soraya Altorki; 17. Economic Changes in the Newly Reclaimed Lands: From State Farms to Small Holdings and Private Agricultural Enterprises Giinter Meyer; VII. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT: SOCIETY AND POLITICS 327 $a18. Men of Authority-Documents of Authority: Notes on Customary Law in Upper Egypt Hans-Christian Korsholm Nielsen19. Culture and Mediation of Power in an Egyptian Village Ahmed Zayed; Contributors; Index; Back Cover 330 $aThis volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the countryside, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992. Along with the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture, marketing, and rural life, several chapters address the declining trend of rural Egyptians to emigrate. Other chapters examine changes in consumption patterns and health, various rural social processes and the 'new lands' being reclaimed in Egypt's desert areas, representations of the rural population in the media and in statistics, a 606 $aRural development$zEgypt 607 $aEgypt$xRural conditions 607 $aEgypt$xEconomic conditions$y1952- 607 $aEgypt$xSocial conditions$y1952-1970 615 0$aRural development 676 $a307.7620962 700 $aHopkins$b Nicholas S$0659102 702 $aHopkins$b Nicholas S. 702 $aWestergaard$b Kirsten 702 $aAbdel Aal$b Mohamed Hassan 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823401303321 996 $aDirections of change in rural Egypt$94011864 997 $aUNINA