Connected in Cairo : growing up cosmopolitan in the modern Middle East /
For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully co...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2011.
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Colección: | Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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