| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 263 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
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Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Feb. 16, 2012). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Toward an anthropology of connections -- Making kids modern: agency and identity in Arabic children's magazines -- Pokemon panics: class play in the private schools -- Talk like an Egyptian: negotiating identity at the American University in Cairo -- Coffee shops and gender in translocal spaces -- The global and the multilocal: development, enterprise, and culture brokers. |
| Summary |
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 contextualized case studies -- of Arabic children's magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants -- Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Egypt -- Cairo. |
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Cosmopolitanism -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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Cosmopolitanism. |
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Social mobility -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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Social mobility. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Peterson, Mark Allen. Connected in Cairo. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011 9780253356284 (DLC) 2010043779 (OCoLC)663954303 |
| ISBN |
9780253001955 (electronic book) |
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0253001951 (electronic book) |
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9780253356284 |
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0253356288 |
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9780253223111 |
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0253223113 |
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