'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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... role as symbols of 'tradition' and vessels for national honour in rapidly changing countries (Baron 2005), scholars ... roles and norms based on Islamic beliefs, this must be balanced by the particular histories, contexts, and processes ...
... roles men and women play may change in subtle or dramatic ways. The literature on gender and migration in the Arab world illustrates the various and sometimes unexpected results of large-scale population movements on gender roles and ...
... methodological advantages, also brought a number of complexities to the research project as I began to recognize the epistemological load my position carried. From the start, my attempts to learn roles of wife, 20 | 'Brothers' or Others?
... roles of wife, sister-in-law and daughter-in-law opened my eyes to the importance of the Sudanese code of adab, propriety. Learning to behave 'properly', with all the weight it was given as a marker of difference from 'Egyptian ...
... role in strengthening commercial and political relationships between the two countries (Hill 1959; Walz 1978; Warburg 1992). Many Sudanese residing in Egypt count at least one Egyptian among their relatives, and male political and ...
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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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