'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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... tradition in Islamic thought throughout the Arab and Muslim world, as will be explored in Chapter 5. Muslim and Arab-identified Sudanese and Egyptians also share language, religion, and kinship ties. Metanarratives including Arab ...
... tradition, one that has encompassed their relatively small territorial homeland for centuries. Their putative Arab cultural heritage was adopted in stages, overwhelming but not concealing the extant Nubian cultural identity; these ...
... tradition' and vessels for national honour in rapidly changing countries (Baron 2005), scholars also show us how women control and manipulate certain aspects of their gendered representation (Nageeb 2004). Both Bernal (1997) and Hale ...
... traditions', including gender and other aspects of propriety. As in all situations of flux, the tension between real and ideal gender roles increases the potential for conflict. Gender is not a fixed construct even in stable times ...
... traditions, behaviour, and beliefs 'accurately'. Rather, the data on 'typical' Sudanese lifeways presented in this book is a portrayal of what Sudanese in Cairo presented to me as typical. I speculate, but have no way of knowing, that ...
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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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