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Directions of change in rural Egypt
- Title
- Directions of change in rural Egypt / edited by Nicholas S. Hopkins, Kirsten Westergaard.
- Publication
- Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, c1998.
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- Description
- viii, 398 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : directions of change in rural Egypt / Nicholas Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard -- The market's place / Timothy Mitchell -- The evolution of agragarian structures in Egypt : regional patterns of change in farm size / François Ireton -- Beating plowshares into swords : the relocation of rural Egyptian workers and their discontent / James Toth -- Facing structural adjustment : strategies of peasants, the state, and international financial institutions / Ray Bush -- Hegemony in the periphery : community and exclusion in an upper Egyptian village / Reem Saad -- The northwest coast : a part of rural Egypt? / Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole -- Television and the virtues of education : upper Egyptian encounters with state culture / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Conflict or cooperation : changing gender roles in rural Egyptian households / Kamran Asdar Ali -- The vision of a better life : new patterns of consumption and changed social relations / Kirsten Haugaard Bach -- Being sickly or eating well : the conceptualization of health and ill-health in an upper Egyptian village / Hania Sholkamy -- Health units in rural Egypt : at the forefront of health improvement or anachronisms? / Sohair Mehanna and Peter Winch -- Change and continuity in the village of Batra : family strategies / Malak S. Rouchdy -- Spaces of poverty : the geography of social change in rural Egypt / Detlef Müller-Mahn -- Farmers and cooperatives in the era of structural adjustment / Mohamed H. Abdel Aal -- Rural periodic markets in Egypt / Mohamed M. Mohieddin -- Agro-pastoralism and development in Egypt's northwest coast / Donald P. Cole and Soraya Altorki -- Economic changes in the newly reclaimed lands : from state farms to small holdings and private agriculture enterprises / Günter Meyer -- Men of authority--documents of authority : notes on customary law in upper Egypt / Hans-Christian Korsholm Nielsen -- Culture and mediation of power in an Egyptian village / Ahmed Zayed.
- Call Number
- *OGO 99-8001
- ISBN
- 9774244834
- LCCN
- 98961219
- OCLC
- 41150221
- Title
- Directions of change in rural Egypt / edited by Nicholas S. Hopkins, Kirsten Westergaard.
- Imprint
- Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, c1998.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hopkins, Nicholas S.Westergaard, Kirsten.
- Research Call Number
- *OGO 99-8001