'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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... status determination in Egypt. This book has gone through a number of stages, each of which is associated with a key set of people who helped me formulate ideas, questions, and analyses. I was nurtured through the doctoral research and ...
... status in residence, education, and employment that they had enjoyed during Egypt's 'special relationship' with Sudan, albeit with Sudan playing the role of 'younger brother'. Furthermore, daily life for Sudanese in Cairo has become ...
... status despite rhetoric of the Egyptian state downplaying this new reality. Egyptian assurances of support and brotherhood for Sudanese and the reassurance derived from shared characteristics with Egyptians are contradicted, for ...
... statuses and identities. This point is taken up by Wimmer and Glick Schiller (Wimmer and Schiller 2003), who argue that social scientists who study immigrants and immigration are often so hampered by 'methodological nationalism' that ...
... status in Egypt. Boundaries. and. Boundedness. As a function of the social organization of difference, most anthropologists concur with Barth (1969) that it is the boundary between groups that is important, rather than the 'cultural stuff ...
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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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