'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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... identity, and 'otherness' in the Middle East context. Arguing that gender ... ethnic markers for displaced communities. Ethnicity. and. 'Race'. in. the. Nile ... identity. As Muslims, these Sudanese 'know' themselves to be part of a rich ...
... identity shared by all those who live within the current boundaries of Northern Sudan, regardless of their particular ethnic affiliation' (Idris 2001: 27). With the creation of the Democratic Republic of Sudan, Muslim Arab Sudanese were ...
... identity in general, and ethnic identity in particular. As Eriksen illustrates, the assumption by many plural societies that ethnic boundaries are static and essential to a person's identity fails to recognize that that ethnicity is ...
... identity based on superior propriety enacted through gender 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 ...
... ethnic or other named categories and focused on boundary maintenance' (1997: 754) and an internal, processual identity that builds social relations in a changing and unstable social environment. She notes that observers might overlook ...
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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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