The great social laboratory : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt /

The great social laboratory : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt /

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Main Author: El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2007.

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Social sciences > Research > Egypt.
Social sciences > Study and teaching > Egypt > History > 19th century.
Social sciences > Study and teaching > Egypt > History > 20th century.
Egypt > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Egypt > Intellectual life > 20th century.

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Call Number: H62.5 .E3 E4 2007

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300 |a xii, 328 pages ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-318) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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