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- catalog abstract ""This volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the country-side, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992. Along with the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture, marketing, and rural life, several chapters address the declining trend of rural Egyptians to emigrate. Other chapters examine changes in consumption patterns and health, various rural social processes and the 'new lands' being reclaimed in Egypt's desert areas, representations of the rural population in the media and in statistics, and their own changing self-image."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11063921.
- catalog contributor b11063922.
- catalog coverage "Egypt Economic conditions 1952-".
- catalog coverage "Egypt Rural conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Egypt Social conditions 1952-1970.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""This volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the country-side, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992. Along with the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture, marketing, and rural life, several chapters address the declining trend of rural Egyptians to emigrate. Other chapters examine changes in consumption patterns and health, various rural social processes and the 'new lands' being reclaimed in Egypt's desert areas, representations of the rural population in the media and in statistics, and their own changing self-image."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Being sickly or eating well: the conceptualization of health and ill-health in an upper Egyptian village / Hania Sholkamy -- Health units in rural Egypt / Sohair Mehanna, Peter Winch -- Change and continuity in the village of Batra: family strategies / Malak S. Rouchdy -- Spaces of poverty: the geography of social change in rural Egypt / Detlef Müller-Mahn -- Farmers and cooperatives in the era of structural adjustment / Mohamed H. Abdel Aal -- Rural periodic markets in Egypt / Mohamed M. Mohieddin -- Agro-pastoralism and development in Egypt's northwest coast / Donald P. Cole, Soraya Altorki -- Economic changes in the newly reclaimed lands: from state farms to small holdings and private agricultural enterprises / Günter Meyer -- Men of authority-documents of authority: notes on customary law in upper Egypt / Hans-Christian Korsholm Nielsen -- Culture and mediation of power in an Egyptian village / Ahmed Zayed.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The market's place / Timothy Mitchell -- The evolution of agrarian structures in Egypt / François Ireton -- Beating plowshares into swords: the relocation of rural Egyptian workers and their discontent / James Toth -- Facing structural adjustment strategies of peasants, the state, and the international financial institutions / Ray Bush -- Hegemony in the periphery: community and exclusion in upper Egyptian village / Reem Saad -- The northwest coast: a part of rural Egypt? / Soraya Altorki, Donald P. Cole -- Television and the virtues of education: upper Egyptian encounters with state culture / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Conflict or cooperation: changing gender roles in rural Egyptian households / Kamran Asdar Ali -- The vision of a better life: new patterns of consumption and changed social relations / Kirsten Haugaard Bach.".
- catalog extent "viii, 398 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Directions of change in rural Egypt.".
- catalog identifier "9774244834".
- catalog isFormatOf "Directions of change in rural Egypt.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cairo : American University in Cairo Press,".
- catalog relation "Directions of change in rural Egypt.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Economic conditions 1952-".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Social conditions 1952-1970.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt.".
- catalog subject "HN786.A8 D576 1998".
- catalog subject "Rural development Egypt.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Being sickly or eating well: the conceptualization of health and ill-health in an upper Egyptian village / Hania Sholkamy -- Health units in rural Egypt / Sohair Mehanna, Peter Winch -- Change and continuity in the village of Batra: family strategies / Malak S. Rouchdy -- Spaces of poverty: the geography of social change in rural Egypt / Detlef Müller-Mahn -- Farmers and cooperatives in the era of structural adjustment / Mohamed H. Abdel Aal -- Rural periodic markets in Egypt / Mohamed M. Mohieddin -- Agro-pastoralism and development in Egypt's northwest coast / Donald P. Cole, Soraya Altorki -- Economic changes in the newly reclaimed lands: from state farms to small holdings and private agricultural enterprises / Günter Meyer -- Men of authority-documents of authority: notes on customary law in upper Egypt / Hans-Christian Korsholm Nielsen -- Culture and mediation of power in an Egyptian village / Ahmed Zayed.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The market's place / Timothy Mitchell -- The evolution of agrarian structures in Egypt / François Ireton -- Beating plowshares into swords: the relocation of rural Egyptian workers and their discontent / James Toth -- Facing structural adjustment strategies of peasants, the state, and the international financial institutions / Ray Bush -- Hegemony in the periphery: community and exclusion in upper Egyptian village / Reem Saad -- The northwest coast: a part of rural Egypt? / Soraya Altorki, Donald P. Cole -- Television and the virtues of education: upper Egyptian encounters with state culture / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Conflict or cooperation: changing gender roles in rural Egyptian households / Kamran Asdar Ali -- The vision of a better life: new patterns of consumption and changed social relations / Kirsten Haugaard Bach.".
- catalog title "Directions of change in rural Egypt / edited by Nicholas S. Hopkins, Kirsten Westergaard.".
- catalog type "text".