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Culture and dignity [[electronic resource] ] : dialogues between the Middle East and the West / / Laura Nader
| Culture and dignity [[electronic resource] ] : dialogues between the Middle East and the West / / Laura Nader |
| Autore | Nader Laura |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/25601821 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Arab
Ethnology - Arab countries Arabs - Ethnic identity East and West |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-299-15783-1
1-118-31904-4 1-118-31902-8 |
| Classificazione | SOC002010 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Culture and Dignity: Dialogues between the Middle East and the West; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; Indignities; Naturalizing Difference and the Great Transformation; Comparison, Ethnography, and History; References; Further Reading; 2 From Rifa' ah al-Tahtawi to Edward Said: Lessons in Culture and Dignity; Introduction; Rifa' ah al-Tahtawi and France; A Hundred Years Later: Edward Said; Concluding Comments; References; 3 Ethnography as Theory: On the Roots of Controversy in Anthropology; Introduction; Unstated Consensus; Defining Ethnographic Worth: 1896-2000
Ethnographic AudiencesAn Outsider Looking In on Anthropology's Ethnography; Concluding Comments; Note; References; Further Reading; 4 Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Control of Women; Cultural Hierarchy and Processes of Control; The Specificity of Eastern and Western Grids; Positional Superiority, Thought Systems, and Other Cultures; Ways of Seeing and Comparing - East and West; The Controlling Role of Ideas; The Use of Revolution in Gender Control; Multiple Systems of Female Subordination; Colonialism, Development, Religion, and Gender Control; Conclusion: The Need to Separate Identities AcknowledgmentsNotes; References; Further Reading; 5 Corporate Fundamentalism: Constructing Childhood in the United States and Elsewhere; Introduction; Manufacturing Culture Bit by Bit; Fundamentalisms: Corporate and Religious; Marketing and Children: The United States; Drugs, Commercialism, and the Biomedical Paradigm: An American Example; When Corporate Profits and Education Meet: The Educational Testing Industry; Fundamentalisms: Economic, Religious, Political; Back to Corporate Fundamentalism: Future Directions; References; Further Reading 6 Culture and the Seeds of Nonviolence in the Middle EastIntroduction; Disharmonic Westernization and Pilgrimage; Between the Stereotype and Reality; Little Worlds in the International Grip; Culture and Nonviolence: Who Stands to Gain From Peace?; Dignity Becomes Reality; References; Further Reading; 7 Normative Blindness and Unresolved Human Rights Issues: The Hypocrisy of Our Age; Introduction; Early Constraints; Unresolved Issues; A Nonstate Human Rights Effort; Health and Human Rights; Human Rights and Commercialism; Concluding Remarks; Note; References 8 Breaking the Silence: Politics and Professional AutonomyIntroduction; Silence and Dominant Hegemonies; Desensitization; Mistakes Repeated in the Iraq Invasion; Note; References; 9 Lessons; Lessons Learned; Strategies of Subordination - In Reverse; Macro-histories; References; Appendix Laura Nader: Selected Publications Relating to the Middle East; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463338703321 |
Nader Laura
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| Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Culture and dignity [[electronic resource] ] : dialogues between the Middle East and the West / / Laura Nader
| Culture and dignity [[electronic resource] ] : dialogues between the Middle East and the West / / Laura Nader |
| Autore | Nader Laura |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 240 p |
| Disciplina | 303.48/25601821 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Arab
Ethnology - Arab countries Arabs - Ethnic identity East and West |
| ISBN |
1118319028
9781118319024 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796086603321 |
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Nader Laura
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| Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The illusion of progress in the Arab world [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of Western misconstructions / / Galal Amin; translated by David Wilmsen
| The illusion of progress in the Arab world [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of Western misconstructions / / Galal Amin; translated by David Wilmsen |
| Autore | Amin Galal A. <1935-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cairo, : American University in Cairo Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (162 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.09174927 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-61797-056-5
1-936190-71-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 - The Illusion of Progress; 2 - Economic Development; 3 - Human Development; 4 - Freedom; 5 - Democracy; 6 - Capitalism; 7 - Human Rights; 8 - The Information Revolution; 9 - Ethics; 10 - Terrorism; 11 - Progress Backward?; 12 - Modernization or Reform?; Notes |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459296503321 |
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Amin Galal A. <1935->
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| Cairo, : American University in Cairo Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The illusion of progress in the Arab world [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of Western misconstructions / / Galal Amin; translated by David Wilmsen
| The illusion of progress in the Arab world [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of Western misconstructions / / Galal Amin; translated by David Wilmsen |
| Autore | Amin Galal A. <1935-2018.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cairo, : American University in Cairo Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (162 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.09174927 |
| ISBN |
1-61797-056-5
1-936190-71-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 - The Illusion of Progress; 2 - Economic Development; 3 - Human Development; 4 - Freedom; 5 - Democracy; 6 - Capitalism; 7 - Human Rights; 8 - The Information Revolution; 9 - Ethics; 10 - Terrorism; 11 - Progress Backward?; 12 - Modernization or Reform?; Notes |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785270403321 |
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Amin Galal A. <1935-2018.>
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| Cairo, : American University in Cairo Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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