'Brothers' or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in EgyptBerghahn Books, 1. 3. 2008 - Počet stran: 204 Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows instead that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety, shared by Sudanese and Egyptian communities. The resulting ethnic identity is ambiguous and flexible, allowing Sudanese to voice their frustrations and make claims for their own uniqueness while acknowledging the identity that they share with the dominant Egyptian community. |
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... relations is a major source of ambivalence for Sudanese, since many acknowledge a common cultural and religious heritage with Egypt but resent Egyptian lack of awareness of Sudanese cultural and historical specificities. The confusing ...
... relations. The adab ideal is not necessarily the focal point of the Sudanese cultural map in other places,2 and as such needs to be understood in the context of Sudanese experiences in Cairo. History and experience for Sudanese have ...
... relations. Sudanese who arrived in Egypt in the 1940s and earlier have maintained these identities more strongly than more recently arriving urbanized exiles from Khartoum who tend to identify each other by family name and urban ...
... relations of these groups, a point to which I return for its manifestation in Sudanese ethnic identity in Cairo. The development of a national identity that led up to the establishment of Sudan presented Muslim Arab Sudanese with the ...
... relations between groups rather than an essentialized label synonymous with 'culture' (Eriksen 2002). In terms of explaining how ethnicity 'works' to maintain social identities, Barth (1969) first noted that it is the ethnically defined ...
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Part IIModernity and Otherness | 51 |
Chapter 3Creating Foreigners Becoming Exiles | 53 |
Chapter 4Presenting Sudanese Differences | 77 |
Part IIINeither Brothers nor Others | 95 |
Chapter 5Muslim Arab Adab and Sudanese Ethnicity | 97 |
Chapter 6A Sudanese Culture of Exile in Cairo | 121 |
Chapter 7Gender Diaspora and Transformation | 151 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Index | 179 |
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