'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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... behaviours, norms, and beliefs marking 'proper' social interaction for women and for men, draws upon Islamic and Arab ... behaviour, adab, at the household, community, civil society, and national levels. However, Egyptians recognize the ...
... behaviour, and squabbles over 'legitimate' membership in the ethnic category, Sudanese themselves 'know' that they are Sudanese, and 'know' what it means to be Sudanese. The ambiguous ethnicity for Sudanese that I focus on in this book ...
... behaviour. I argue that Sudanese ethnicity is ambiguous precisely because of their situational ability to see themselves as part of the dominant society despite their subordinate status in Egypt. Boundaries. and. Boundedness. As a function ...
... behavioural or linguistic characteristics. The key processual component for Turks in Germany, she asserts, is ... behaviour, Sudanese recognize that Egyptians, as fellow Arabs and Muslims, share the same cultural concept of adab ...
... behaviour for Arabs and Muslims often hinges on their social interactions as men or women. Anthropologists of northern Sudanese communities have identified gender ideologies that relate Sudanese behaviour, especially that of women, to ...
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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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