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Full-Text Articles in Anthropology
Organization Of Women And Empowerment, Regina Poni Jacob
Organization Of Women And Empowerment, Regina Poni Jacob
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Images Of Cairo And Its People As Seen By Women Sojourners Of The 19th Century (1829-1892), Azza Abbas El Rakhawy
Images Of Cairo And Its People As Seen By Women Sojourners Of The 19th Century (1829-1892), Azza Abbas El Rakhawy
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Embodying The Everyday Practices Of Urban Water: The Discourse Of Water Scarcity And Women's Subjectivities In Amman, Jordan, Katrin Masharqa
Embodying The Everyday Practices Of Urban Water: The Discourse Of Water Scarcity And Women's Subjectivities In Amman, Jordan, Katrin Masharqa
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No abstract provided.
Framing A Voice: A Mental Health Consumer Movement's Media Discourse, Jon Birgir Einarsson
Framing A Voice: A Mental Health Consumer Movement's Media Discourse, Jon Birgir Einarsson
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No abstract provided.
The Attitudes Of Finnish Tourists And Egyptians Towards Tourism In Hurghada, Laila El-Mahgary
The Attitudes Of Finnish Tourists And Egyptians Towards Tourism In Hurghada, Laila El-Mahgary
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Who Is Responsible For The Process Of Labelling Refugees And The Creation Of The "Refugee Status"?, Soha Nader Abdelmalek
Who Is Responsible For The Process Of Labelling Refugees And The Creation Of The "Refugee Status"?, Soha Nader Abdelmalek
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No abstract provided.
Fgm Abandonment In Egypt: A Case Study Of Changing Behavioural Patterns And Attitudes Towards Fgm In The Village Of Benban, Aswan, Laila Mahmoud El Moshneb
Fgm Abandonment In Egypt: A Case Study Of Changing Behavioural Patterns And Attitudes Towards Fgm In The Village Of Benban, Aswan, Laila Mahmoud El Moshneb
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The Egyptian Popular Committee In Solidarity With The Palestinian Intifada: A Social Movement, Hebatallah Mahmoud El KalaʻAwy
The Egyptian Popular Committee In Solidarity With The Palestinian Intifada: A Social Movement, Hebatallah Mahmoud El KalaʻAwy
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The thesis explores the Egyptian Popular Committee in Solidarity with the Palestinian J nti fada in reference to contemporary theories of social movements. It attempts to analyze the EPCSP from two perspectives. One is by discussing the objectives, internal structure and activities of the committee in light of the characteristics of new social movements and the other is by analyzing resources mobilized by the committee such as the alliance of different political trends, the integration of professional syndicates into the different activities, the establishment of branches of the committee in various governorates and the use of advanced technology in enhancing …
The Problematic Of Generating Anthropological Knowledge: A Case Study Of A Health And Gender Development Project In Rural Egypt, Tonje Holm
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This thesis explores how boarder guards limits the amount of knowledge an anthropologist really can obtain doing research. The research is based upon a concrete case study in Egypt where local and national government bodies "border guard" how knowledge is gained within a development project. This research shows how although anthropological knowledge and research provide a body of theory within which policy is created the policy should come with a "health warning". Field research undoubtedly give more information than so called "armchair" research, but it is far from giving the policy makers the full picture of the society, or project …
Young Women Smoking Shisha In Greater Cairo: A Social Study, Shahinaz M Khalil
Young Women Smoking Shisha In Greater Cairo: A Social Study, Shahinaz M Khalil
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There is a lack of research concerning the widespread phenomenon of young women smoking shisha, which is becoming a widespread phenomenon within Egyptian society. This research was conducted in order to assess the practices of young women concerning their smoking of the shisha in order to understand such a relatively new phenomenon. In order to understand this phenomenon, empirical questions were developed concerning the characteristics of young women smoking shisha, when and why they started, cost and frequency of smoking, their knowledge about the health hazards of smoking, the future of their smoking, their perception of young women smokers, and …
The Self-Perceived Identities Of Six English Teachers At One Islamic Language School In Cairo, Rama Ma Abdelaziz Ghazi
The Self-Perceived Identities Of Six English Teachers At One Islamic Language School In Cairo, Rama Ma Abdelaziz Ghazi
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Since the 1970s Egyptian society has witnessed a wave of Islamism. This tern1 refers to a surge of religious revivalism based on the precepts of Islam. This religious resurgence has been reflected and manifested in the increase in the emergence of a type of schooling knm\n as Islamic schools. Such schools aim at implementing certain goals and standards which are in-line with their ideology, in this case Islamic. The teacher is an access point between the school's administration, the Ministry of Education and the student. He or she acts as a mediator between the school (as a system, structure) and …
Poverty, Gender, And Religion: A Reflection On The Status Of Coptic Women In Poor Areas, Ereeny Talaat Zaki
Poverty, Gender, And Religion: A Reflection On The Status Of Coptic Women In Poor Areas, Ereeny Talaat Zaki
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The objective of this thesis is to explore the reasons behind the oppression of poor Coptic women. It examines the factors that position Coptic women in inferior status. It analyzes these factors at the intersections of lack of resources, poverty consequences, and gender inequalities that shape life experiences of this segment of the Egyptian society. Central to my argument is the influence of religion on the lives of those women. In the light of fieldwork conducted in the poor area of El Salaam city, the main finding is that religion affiliation, especially if this religion is adopted by a minority …
Gender, Citizenship And Personal Status Laws: Egypt & Morocco Compared, Yvette Fayez Isaac
Gender, Citizenship And Personal Status Laws: Egypt & Morocco Compared, Yvette Fayez Isaac
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This research puts forward the argument that the state can utilize, negotiate and transform laws according to the different forces it faces and that this has its implications on citizenship rights for women. The study accomplishes this by comparing Egypt and Morocco, two Arab [and North African] countries that have undergone recent changes in their personal status laws (also called family laws). Methodologically speaking, this is achieved through examining the impact of the rising pressure of women's groups and local NGOs to challenge the rising Islamic activism (internal factors), and the impact of globalization, and international conventions and organizations (external …
Living With Family And Foreigners: Egypt Female Tourist Guides' Narratives On Their Family, Work, And Identity, Junko Toriyama
Living With Family And Foreigners: Egypt Female Tourist Guides' Narratives On Their Family, Work, And Identity, Junko Toriyama
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This is an ethnographic research project on Egyptian female tourist guides. Based on over forty semi-structured interviews, the study attempted to gain an insight into Egyptian female tourist guide's everyday life, especially focusing on her gender relations from two different angles; discourses and practices. Tourist guiding in Egypt is a relatively new occupation, as it was created to serve the demands of a growing international tourism industry. In one respect, it is an occupation to buff er two different cultures. The occupation offers a gender neutral criteria and gender neutral responsibility, and many women as well as men are working …
Wife Battering In Contemporary Cairo: An Exploratory Study In Rights And Perceptions, Iman Mohamed Eissa
Wife Battering In Contemporary Cairo: An Exploratory Study In Rights And Perceptions, Iman Mohamed Eissa
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The universal phenomenon of wife battering has calamitous consequences on the battered woman, usurping her security, human agency and autonomy, thus relegating her to a secondary status citizen, incapable of contributing to the community's development. Research on wife battering in Egypt is very limited. The goal of this thesis is to explore battered women's lives in contemporary Cairo, focusing on battered wives' perceptions of abuse in relation to discrimination against women in Egypt and women's citizenship rights within the Egyptian state. This study was conducted using a qualitative research methodology. Ten in depth, semi-structured interviews were carried out with battered …
The Search For A New Islamic Identity: Middle Aged Elite Women, Noha Ali Abou Gazia
The Search For A New Islamic Identity: Middle Aged Elite Women, Noha Ali Abou Gazia
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This thesis investigates the construction of a new Islamic identity by middle aged elite women in Egypt. I argue that the search for a new Islamic identity by elite women should be viewed as a redefinition of identity fully autonomous from the current codes imposed by the media. For them, the search for meaning takes place in the reconstruction of defensive identities informed by Islamic notions. The construction of a new Islamic identity by elite women should be viewed in terms the conflicts they face in society. The conflict arises from the society's endeavor to impose certain codes and the …
Gender, Forced Migration And Paid Domestic Work: Case Studies On Refugee Women Domestic Workers In Cairo, Amira Abderahman Ahmed
Gender, Forced Migration And Paid Domestic Work: Case Studies On Refugee Women Domestic Workers In Cairo, Amira Abderahman Ahmed
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The main aim of this thesis is to be able to fill a research gap with regard to women and their survival strategies with emphasis on refugee women, mostly from the Hom of Africa, who have fled to Cairo during the 1990s. The presence of refugee women in the domestic labor sector in Egypt is a relatively recent phenomenon. Cairo, as a large urban setting in the developing world, provides an interesting site where all of these distinct actors play the same role and share at least two structural factors: being migrant women and domestics. The basic argument of this …
Barbarous Magnificence: The Decline And Continuity Of Akan Traditional Religious Practices, Kwasi Bempong
Barbarous Magnificence: The Decline And Continuity Of Akan Traditional Religious Practices, Kwasi Bempong
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This thesis uses archaeological, anthropological, and historical evidence along with indigenous texts as the determining factors to address two major problems in the literature: the widely held belief that Akan culture developed in the forests of modem Ghana and that their supreme deity, Onyame, is a 'withdrawn deity', with whom they did not share an intimate relationship. Although these problems may seem unrelated the former is used to support the latter by ignoring the historical antecedents of Northern Akan culture that blossomed in the savanna-forest transition zone and the subsequent movement of well-developed religious practices and beliefs from the north …
Social Orientalism, Daniel P Reany
Social Orientalism, Daniel P Reany
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No abstract provided.
Change Among Bedouins: An Exploratory Study In El-Hammam, Egypt, Neveen Gorgy Dawoud Azmy
Change Among Bedouins: An Exploratory Study In El-Hammam, Egypt, Neveen Gorgy Dawoud Azmy
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This research was triggered by an interest in examining the changes that took place in Bedouin communities, especially when it comes in the framework of a development process. The existing writings on this topic are divided into two camps: one maintains that change within Bedouin communities was very minimal, and to a great extent inconsequential, whereas, the other argues that changes therein were quite considerable. This thesis, through examining the local Awlad 'Ali community of elHammam, holds the latter view. Thus, the research traces the recent changes in their area and compares and contrasts the changes that their society has …
Islamic Associations In Cairo, Manal Abdel Salam Badawy
Islamic Associations In Cairo, Manal Abdel Salam Badawy
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No abstract provided.
Early Marriage, Eman Mahmoud Zaki Saleh
Early Marriage, Eman Mahmoud Zaki Saleh
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No abstract provided.
To Have Or Not To Have, Enas Abdul Karim Almudaris
To Have Or Not To Have, Enas Abdul Karim Almudaris
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No abstract provided.
Marriage Via A Mediator, Yasmine Ahmed Mohamed El Sayed
Marriage Via A Mediator, Yasmine Ahmed Mohamed El Sayed
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No abstract provided.
Serving Two Masters: Family And Factory In The Lives And Consciousness Of Egyptian Women Workers, Lamia Yacoub Bulbul
Serving Two Masters: Family And Factory In The Lives And Consciousness Of Egyptian Women Workers, Lamia Yacoub Bulbul
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No abstract provided.
Local Self Help - Local Self Defeat, Maha Mahfouz Abdel Rahman
Local Self Help - Local Self Defeat, Maha Mahfouz Abdel Rahman
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No abstract provided.
Egyptian Women's Awareness Of Their Marital Rights And Its Relation To Their Status Within The Family, Noha Ezzat Maarouf
Egyptian Women's Awareness Of Their Marital Rights And Its Relation To Their Status Within The Family, Noha Ezzat Maarouf
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No abstract provided.
Scenes Of Schooling, Linda Herrera
Scenes Of Schooling, Linda Herrera
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No abstract provided.
The Mobilization Of Palestinians During The Intifada, Laura Giries El-Khoury
The Mobilization Of Palestinians During The Intifada, Laura Giries El-Khoury
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No abstract provided.
They Are The Government: Bureaucracy And Development In An Egyptian Village, Hania M Sholkamy
They Are The Government: Bureaucracy And Development In An Egyptian Village, Hania M Sholkamy
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No abstract provided.