On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031901ISBN-10:1478031905UPC:9781478031901Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Middle Eastern StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCMD4WYP90
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
On the Semicivilized by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped--and blocked--sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire. Drawing on thirty years of ethnographic research in Cairo, family archives from Palestine and Egypt, and research on Ottoman debt and finance to rethink catastrophe and potentiality in Cairo and the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031901ISBN-10:1478031905UPC:9781478031901Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Middle Eastern StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCMD4WYP90
Julia Elyachar is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and author of Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo, also published by Duke University Press.
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