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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Geschichte 1900-1950.
Social sciences > Study and teaching > Egypt > History > 19th century.
Social sciences > Study and teaching > Egypt > History > 20th century.
Social sciences > Research > Egypt.
Sciences sociales > Étude et enseignement > Égypte > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences sociales > Étude et enseignement > Égypte > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sciences sociales > Recherche > Égypte.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
HISTORY > Middle East > Egypt.
Intellectual life
Social sciences > Research
Social sciences > Study and teaching
Sozialwissenschaften
Forschung
Sociale wetenschappen.
Onderwijs.
Onderzoek.
Geschiedenis.
Intellectuele vorming.
Egypt > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Egypt > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Egypt
Ägypten
Egypte.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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