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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Allen PetersonPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780253223111ISBN 10: 0253223113 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 06 May 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration 1. Toward an Anthropology of Connections 2. Making Kids Modern: Agency and Identity in Arabic Children's Magazines 3. Pokémon Panics: Class Play in the Private Schools 4. Talk Like an Egyptian: Negotiating Identity at the American University in Cairo 5. Coffee Shops and Gender in Translocal Spaces 6. The Global and the Multilocal: Development, Enterprise, and Culture Brokers Epilogue Dramatis Personae Notes References IndexReviews"""Excellent... original... sophisticated."" Christa Salamandra, City University of New York ""Offers a strong contribution to the anthropology of the Middle East, global studies, political economy of neoliberalism, and to scholarship on urban life and class and gender relations in the contemporary Global South... [A] wonderful teaching tool."" Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara ""Connected in Cairo provides an accessible and instructive reading of the everyday construction and negotiation of what is oftentimes glossed as globalization, and will be of value to students and academics interested in the importance of social imagination in the making of local worlds in global times.""--Journal of African History ""This book is thus a valuable contribution for scholars in a variety of social sciences who have taken the wave of revolutions in the Arab world as their subject matter, and for those who will be paying close attention to how these elites in Cairo and elsewhere respond to existential threats to their structural privileges.""--Anthropological Quarterly" Excellent... original... sophisticated. Christa Salamandra, City University of New York Offers a strong contribution to the anthropology of the Middle East, global studies, political economy of neoliberalism, and to scholarship on urban life and class and gender relations in the contemporary Global South... [A] wonderful teaching tool. Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara Excellent... original... sophisticated. Christa Salamandra, City University of New York Offers a strong contribution to the anthropology of the Middle East, global studies, political economy of neoliberalism, and to scholarship on urban life and class and gender relations in the contemporary Global South... [A] wonderful teaching tool. Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara Connected in Cairo provides an accessible and instructive reading of the everyday construction and negotiation of what is oftentimes glossed as globalization, and will be of value to students and academics interested in the importance of social imagination in the making of local worlds in global times. --Journal of African History This book is thus a valuable contribution for scholars in a variety of social sciences who have taken the wave of revolutions in the Arab world as their subject matter, and for those who will be paying close attention to how these elites in Cairo and elsewhere respond to existential threats to their structural privileges. --Anthropological Quarterly Author InformationMark 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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