The great social laboratory : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt / Omnia El Shakry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Study and teaching--Egypt--History--19th century.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Study and teaching--Egypt--History--20th century.

Social sciences--Research--Egypt.

Egypt--Intellectual life--19th century.

Egypt.

Egypt--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book charts the development of the social sciences-anthropology, human geography, and demography-in colonial and postcolonial Egypt, exploring the broader significance of knowledge production and its relationship to colonialist and nationalist ideologies.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Knowledge Production; Part I: The Anthropology of the Modern Egyptians: From the Fin-de-Siècle to the Second World War; 1: The Ethnographic Moment; 2: Anthropology's Indigenous Interlocutors: Race and Egyptian Nationalism; Part II: From Ethnographic Realism to Social Engineering: The Problem of the Peasantry, 1925-1945; 3: The Painting of Rural Life; 4: Rural Reconstruction: The "Road to a New Sanitary Life"; Part III: The Problem of Population, 1925-1945

5: Barren Land and Fecund Bodies: The Emergence of Population Discourse in Interwar Egypt6: Body Politics: Gender, Reproduction, and Modernity; Part IV: The Revolutionary Moment; 7: Etatism: Theorizing Egypt's 1952 Revolution; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780804781923

0804781923

OCLC:

743693305