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Connected in Cairo: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East

Connected in Cairo: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East - Paperback

by Mark Allen Peterson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark Allen PetersonSeries:Public Cultures of the Middle East and North AfricaPublish date:2011-05-06Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253223111ISBN-10:253223113UPC:9780253223111Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Media StudiesBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCZTZTJAND

Connected in Cairo: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East

For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies--of Arabic children's magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee...

Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253223111ISBN-10:253223113UPC:9780253223111Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Media StudiesBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCZTZTJAND

Mark Allen Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Miami University. He is author of Anthropology and Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium and co-author of International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues.


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