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

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

Saved in:

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

Format: Book

Language: English

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

Subjects:

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.

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: H62.5 .E3 E4 2007

Save to List Photographic Request Become a member
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.