| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| Summary |
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 artifacts, ranging from the ethnographic museum, to architectural designs, to that pinnacle of social scientific research - 'the article'. The book explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses, and interrogates the boundaries of knowledge production in a colonial and post-colonial setting. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century.
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching. |
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Egypt. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Social sciences -- Research -- Egypt.
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Social sciences -- Research. |
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Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1900-1950 |
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1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970- Great social laboratory. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2007 9780804755672 (DLC) 2007012976 (OCoLC)122261852 |
| ISBN |
9780804781923 (electronic book) |
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0804781923 (electronic book) |
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9780804755672 |
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0804755671 |
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