Author: Nabīl Ṣubḥī ḤannāPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Ghagar of Sett Guiranha
Author: Nabīl Ṣubḥī ḤannāPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Cannibal Hymn
Author: Christopher EyrePublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853237068
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Cannibal Hymn forms a self-standing episode in the ritual anthology that makes up the Pyramid Texts, first appearing in the tomb of Unas at the end of the Fifth Dynasty. Its style and format are characteristic of the oral-recitational poetry of pharaonic Egypt, marked by allusive metaphor and the exploitation of wordplay and homophony in its verbal recreation of a butchery ritual. Christopher Eyre examines the text of the Cannibal Hymn in its performative and cultural context: the detailed mythologization of the sacrificial process in this hymn poses key questions about the nature of rites of passage and rituals of sacrifice in Egypt, and in particular about the mobilization of oral accompaniment to ritual actions.
Masters of the Trade
Author: Pascale GhazalehPublisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774245626
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Based on various guild charters this monograph analyzes the ways in which artisans and merchants organized themselves during the Ottoman period, and asks whether these forms of organization changed during the first half of the 19th century.
A Trade like Any Other
Author: Karin van NieuwkerkPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292786808
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In Egypt, singing and dancing are considered essential on happy occasions. Professional entertainers often perform at weddings and other celebrations, and a host family's prestige rises with the number, expense, and fame of the entertainers they hire. Paradoxically, however, the entertainers themselves are often viewed as disreputable people and are accorded little prestige in Egyptian society. This paradox forms the starting point of Karin van Nieuwkerk's look at the Egyptian entertainment trade. She explores the lives of female performers and the reasons why work they regard as "a trade like any other" is considered disreputable in Egyptian society. In particular, she demonstrates that while male entertainers are often viewed as simply "making a living," female performers are almost always considered bad, seductive women engaged in dishonorable conduct. She traces this perception to the social definition of the female body as always and only sexual and enticing—a perception that stigmatizes women entertainers even as it simultaneously offers them a means of livelihood. Drawn from extensive fieldwork and enriched with the life stories of entertainers and nightclub performers, this is the first ethnography of female singers and dancers in present-day Egypt. It will be of interest to a wide audience in anthropology, women's studies, and Middle Eastern culture, as well as anyone who enjoys belly dancing.
Hidden Hunter-Gatherers of Indian Ocean. With appendix
Author: Sergey GabbasovPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 504229855X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
In this book the author analyzes different groups of hunters and gatherers which live around the coast of Indian Ocean – from the hill jungles of North Thailand to the sandy shores of South Madagascar, from the foothills of Himalaya to the savannahs of central India and deep forests of Sri Lanka.The research is based on the big fieldwork expedition experience and huge bibliography references.
Egyptian Belly Dance in Transition
Author: Heather D. WardPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476666741
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Raqs sharqi, the Egyptian dance form also known as belly dance, has for generations captured imaginations around the globe. Yet its origins have been obscured by misinformation and conjecture, rooted in Orientalist attitudes about the Middle East--a widely accepted narrative suggests the dance was created in response to Western influences and desires. Drawing on an array of primary sources, the author traces the early development of raqs sharqi in the context of contemporary trends in Egyptian arts and entertainment. The dance is revealed to be a hybrid cultural expression, emerging with the formation of Egyptian national identity at the end of the 19th century, when Egypt was occupied by the British.
On Friendship between the No Longer and the Not Yet: An Ethnographic Account
Author: Soha MohsenPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649030673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
There is a great deal to be said about ideas and imaginations of the “future” when one does not have the luxury of maintaining a slot in the present. In the midst of acute conditions of precarity and structural violences and vulnerabilities of different forms (political, economic, social, infrastructural) and magnitudes, Egyptians find ways to adapt and adjust, even experiment, with different arrangements and forms of connectedness. By following, tracing, and accompanying friends and networks of friendship in and across Egypt’s two biggest cities, Cairo and Alexandria, this ethnographic account aims to highlight some of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young Egyptians with the aim of renewing and reviving the question, “What can friendships do?” Against a backdrop of conditions of precarity and the ruins of finance capitalism, this study examines the manifestations of how the relationship of friendship manages to re-invent and re-define itself. Moreover, it asks whether new modes of relationality, companionship, and intimacy can be cultivated and practiced given the current neoliberal conditions of living. The questions that this study attempts to open up are focused on the re-workings, reconfigurations, and re-makings of practices of sociality and intimacy between friends.
The Political Economy of the New Egyptian Republic
Author: Nicholas S. HopkinsPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617978507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Egypt is a country of its people. What has been the effect on its inhabitants of the 2011 revolution and subsequent developments? In 2013, a conference held under the auspices of Cairo Papers in Social Science examined this issue from the points of view of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, psychologists, and urban planners. The papers collected here reveal the strategies that various actors employed in this situation. Contributors: Ellis Goldberg, David Sims, Yasmine Ahmed, Deena Abdelmonem, Dina Makram-Ebeid, Clement Henry, Sandrine Gamblin, Hans Christian Korsholm Nielsen, Zeinab Abul-Magd
Polygyny in Rural Egypt
Author: Laila S. ShahdPublisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774247668
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Presents an analysis of the economic, political, social, and cultural reasons for polygyny in rural Egypt
Autonomy
Author: Aparna RaoPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571819031
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The question of individuality in non-European, and especially South Asian societies is a controversial one. Studies in anthropology and psychology undertaken in recent years on concepts of person and self approach the problem by concentrating on ideologies; the question of practice remains largely neglected. This is the first study to examine the individual-dividual debate empirically from the - emic - perspective of decision making, observed over a two-year period among the Bakkarwal, Himalayan Muslim pastoralists. Of particular significance is the fact that the author bases her approach on the life cycle and on gender and status differences.