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The Particularity of Social Science The Particularity of Social Science
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The Intellectual Setting: Epistemological Foundations, Ideological Effects The Intellectual Setting: Epistemological Foundations, Ideological Effects
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Intellectuals in Society Intellectuals in Society
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Introduction: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Knowledge Production
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Published:October 2007
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This book explores the history of the social sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in Egypt during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production. In particular, it traces the development of a mode of social-scientific inquiry in colonial and postcolonial settings. Relying on a broad range of texts and cultural artifacts, including the ethnographic museum, architectural designs, and “the article,” Egyptian intellectuals and social reformers working within the burgeoning scientific and social associations that emerged in the late nineteenth century formulated social science in an attempt to develop a unified science of society. The book examines the “organic relations between State or political society and civil society,” and in particular of “the birth of new parties of dominant groups.” It also discusses the vexed relationship of colonialism and nationalism with discourses of race and identity, the writings of Egyptian as well as European intellectuals concerned with the problem of the peasantry in interwar Egypt, and the significance of discourses of gender in social-scientific discourses.
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