Mark Allen Peterson

Connected in Cairo

Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East

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Produktbeschreibung

Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780253223111
• ISBN-10: 0253223113
• Artikelnr.: 32728319

Autorenporträt

Mark Allen Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Miami University. He is author of Anthropology and Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium and co-author of International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
1. Toward an Anthropology of Connections
2. Making Kids Modern: Agency and Identity in Arabic Children's Magazines
3. Pokémon Panics: Class Play in the Private Schools
4. Talk Like an Egyptian: Negotiating Identity at the American University
in Cairo
5. Coffee Shops and Gender in Translocal Spaces
6. The Global and the Multilocal: Development, Enterprise, and Culture
Brokers
Epilogue
Dramatis Personae
Notes
References
Index