Baladi women of Cairo : playing with an egg and a stone

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Baladi women of Cairo : playing with an egg and a stone

Evelyn A. Early

L. Rienner Publishers, 1993

  • : pbk.

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Bibliography: p. 207-212

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内容説明

Traditional, urban Egyptian women - baladi women - extol themselves with the proverb, ""A baladi woman can play with an egg and a stone without breaking the egg"". Evelyn Early illustrates this and other expressions of baladi women's self-identity by observing and recording their everyday discourse and how these women - who consider themselves destitute yet savvy - handle such matters as housing, work, marriage, religion, health and life in general. Based on more than three years of research in Bulaq Abu'Ala - a jammed popular quarter north of the fashionable Nile-side hotel district of Cairo - Early's work reveals important cultural themes by minimizing the reflective gaze of the researcher and allowing spontaneous discourse and narrative recountings to ""catch"" culture in action.

目次

  • Women's performance observed in Cairo's back streets
  • the industrial quarter of Bulaq Abu'Ala - mameluke playground turned vulcan's proletarian forge
  • to be baladi is to be savvy - playing with a stone and an egg
  • arenas of baladi performance
  • everyday Islam
  • daily life and well-being.

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