The great social laboratory : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2007]
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.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of 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.