'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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Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt Anita H. Fábos. historical divergence over centuries when some 'Arabized Nubian' tribes began to claim descent from the Muslim Arabs encountered during the peaceful Islamic conquest ...
... historical patterns of belonging and power that link as well as separate Egyptians and Sudanese. In this section, I review some of the key concepts in social science literature about ethnicity and 'race', paying close attention to ...
... historical and religious 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 ...
... historical development of the capitalist world system. O'Brien's study of migrant labourers for a Sudanese mechanized agricultural scheme argues in that case that ethnicity as an organizing principle emerged in the process of peripheral ...
... historical relationships, state policies towards citizenship, and socio-economic conditions. The boundary markers of communities in a diaspora may be quite different depending on the specificities of their relations with the states 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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