Dramas of Nationhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dramas of Nationhood write by Lila Abu-Lughod. This book was released on 2005. Dramas of Nationhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Television is the cultural form that binds together the nation of Egypt. This text analyses Egyptian TV, not only to provide an understanding of the effect of the medium on Egyptian people, but also to examine TVs greater role in culture.
Dramas of Nationhood
Dramas of Nationhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dramas of Nationhood write by Lila Abu-Lughod. This book was released on 2008-05-30. Dramas of Nationhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts—have been shown on television in Egypt for more than thirty years. In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and the way their contents both reflect and seek to direct the changing course of Islam, gender relations, and everyday life in this Middle Eastern nation. Representing a decade's worth of research, Dramas of Nationhood makes a case for the importance of studying television to answer larger questions about culture, power, and modern self-fashionings. Abu-Lughod explores the elements of developmentalist ideology and the visions of national progress that once dominated Egyptian television—now experiencing a crisis. She discusses the broadcasts in rich detail, from the generic emotional qualities of TV serials and the depictions of authentic national culture, to the debates inflamed by their deliberate strategies for combating religious extremism.
Writing Women's Worlds
Writing Women's Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing Women's Worlds write by Lila Abu-Lughod. This book was released on 2008-04-07. Writing Women's Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Extrait de la couverture : " In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation."
Media Worlds
Media Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media Worlds write by Faye D. Ginsburg. This book was released on 2002-10-23. Media Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media.
Veiled Sentiments
Veiled Sentiments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Veiled Sentiments write by Lila Abu-Lughod. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Veiled Sentiments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod’s analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning—for all involved—of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers.
