Connected in Cairo - Growing Up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Global goods, class, and identity in urban Egypt Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Mark Allen Peterson
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2011
• EAN: 9780253223111
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22311-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Indiana University Press; Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories