Anthropology in Egypt, 1900-1967 : culture, function, and reform / Nicholas S. Hopkins = al-Anthrūbūlūchīyā fī Miṣr, 1900-1967 : al-manẓūr al-thaqāfī wa-al-waẓīfī wa-al-iṣlāḥī / Nīkūlās Hūbkinz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkins, Nicholas S., author.

Series:

Cairo papers in social science ; v.33, monograph 2.

Cairo papers in social science ; volume 33, number 2, summer 2010

Cairo papers in social science

بحوث القاهرة في العلوم الاجتماعية ؛ مجلد 33، عدد 2، صيف 2010

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropologists.

Anthropology.

History.

Egypt.

Anthropology--Egypt--History--20th century.

Anthropology--Egypt--History--19th century.

Anthropologists--Egypt.

Physical Description:

vi, 166 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Anthrūbūlūchīyā fī Miṣr, 1900-1967 : al-manẓūr al-thaqāfī wa-al-waẓīfī wa-al-iṣlāḥī

Anthrūbūlūzhīyā fī Miṣr, 1900-1967 : al-manẓūr al-thaqāfī wa-al-waẓīfī wa-al-iṣlāḥī

Anthropology in Egypt, 1900-67 : culture, function, and reform

أنثروبولوچيا في مصر، 1900-1967 : المنظور الثقافي والوظيفي والإصلاحي

أنثروبولوجيا في مصر، 1900-1967 : المنظور الثقافي والوظيفي والإصلاحي

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English; summary in Arabic.

Summary:

Anthropology as a discipline came to Egypt around 1900, as foreign anthropologists reported home on the culture they found. Gradually the intellectual approach was influenced by the functionalist school, stressing that a society consists of interlocking parts. As Egyptians took the lead in anthropology, in the 1930s, the discipline entered into the debate about the need to reform Egyptian society and culture especially in the rural areas, against a general background of functionalism. This approach dominated through the 1960s, when there was a break in Egypt because of the Six-Day War and in world anthropology because of the emergence of new intellectual models. This study traces the evolution of anthropology in Egypt through the stories of its practitioners such as Blackman, Galal, Evans-Pritchard, Hocart, Abbas Ammar, Hamid Ammar, Berque, Abou Zeid, el Hamamsy, Uways, and their contemporaries, showing their challenges and accomplishments. --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Before 1920

3. Evolution of Anthropology in the High Colonial Period

4. Anthropology and an Independent Egypt

5. Nubia and the Western Desert, the 1960s: Anthropology and Change

6. Conclusion: Anthropology and National Development.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-158).

ISBN:

9789774166853

977416685X

OCLC:

898162393