The Great Social Laboratory
Subtitle: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780804755672
Subjects: Anthropology; Human geography; Population & demography; Social research & statistics; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; Demography; Middle East - Egypt; History / Egypt; 19th century; 20th century; Egypt; Research; Social sciences; Study and teaching
Description: 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.