The great social laboratory
Subtitle: subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt
By: Omnia El Shakry.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804755672
Subjects: Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century; Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century; Social sciences -- Research -- Egypt; Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonialism, nationalism, and knowledge production; title: The anthropology of the modern Egyptians : from the fin de siècle to the Second World War; title: The ethnographic moment; title: Anthropology's indigenous interlocutors : race and Egyptian nationalism; title: From ethnographic realism to social engineering : the problem of the peasantry, 1925-1945; title: The painting of rural life; title: Rural reconstruction : the "road to a new sanitary life"; title: The problem of population, 1925-1945; title: Barren land and fecund bodies : the emergence of population discourse; title: Body politics : gender, reproduction and modernity; title: The revolutionary moment; title: Theorizing the revolutionary state.