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

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index Notes 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 English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century Social sciences -- Research -- Egypt SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography. HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt. Intellectual life Social sciences -- Research Social sciences -- Study and teaching Sozialwissenschaften Forschung Sociale wetenschappen. Onderwijs. Onderzoek. Geschiedenis. Intellectuele vorming. SUBJECT Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subject Egypt Ägypten Egypte. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007012976 ISBN 9780804781923 0804781923

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