The great social laboratory : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt /
This study charts the development of the human sciences - anthropology, human geography, and demography - in late 19th and 20th century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, it examines social science through a broad range of texts and cultural artif...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Colonialism, nationalism, and knowledge production
- The anthropology of the modern Egyptians : from the fin-de-siècle to the Second World War
- The ethnographic moment
- Anthropology's indigenous interlocutors : race and Egyptian nationalism
- From ethnographic realism to social engineering : the problem of the peasantry, 1925-1945
- The painting of rural life
- Rural reconstruction : the "road to a new sanitary life"
- The problem of population, 1925-1945
- Barren land and fecund bodies : the emergence of population discourse in interwar Egypt
- Body politics : gender, reproduction, and modernity
- The revolutionary moment
- Etatism : theorizing Egypt's 1952 revolution.