Great Social Laboratory Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt

Name: Great Social Laboratory Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
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ISBN: 9780804793315

ISBN-10: 080479331X

ISBN-13: 9780804793315

Edition: 2007

Authors: Omnia El Shakry

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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."Omnia El Shakry 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…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English