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The "Great Social Laboratory" charts the development of the human sciences - anthropology, human geography, and demography - in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book 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 author explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses and interrogates the boundaries of knowledge production in a colonial and post-colonial setting. She examines the complex imperatives of race, class, and gender in the Egyptian colonial context, uncovering the new modes of governance, expertise, and social knowledge that defined a distinctive era of nationalist politics in the inter- and post-war periods. Finally, she examines the discursive field mapped out by colonial and nationalist discourses on the racial identity of the modern Egyptians.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Great Social Laboratory
• Subtitle: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
• Author: Omnia S. El Shakry
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780804755672
• ISBN: 0804755671
• ID: 04718232
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 599 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 164 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2008

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