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The Great Social Laboratory : Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.