The great social laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt / / Omnia El Shakry
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| Autore: |
El Shakry Omnia S. <1970->
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| Titolo: |
The great social laboratory [[electronic resource] ] : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt / / Omnia El Shakry
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.60962/0904 |
| 304.609620904 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Social sciences - Study and teaching - Egypt - History - 19th century |
| Social sciences - Study and teaching - Egypt - History - 20th century | |
| Social sciences - Research - Egypt | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Egypt Intellectual life 19th century |
| Egypt Intellectual life 20th century | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The great social laboratory |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-8192-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781459603321 |
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