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Lila Abu-Lughod

Dramas of Nationhood

The Politics of Television in Egypt

324 pages, 16 halftones  6 x 9  © 2004
Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series

Cloth $59.00

ISBN: 9780226001968   Published December 2004

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226001975   Published December 2004

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ISBN: 9780226001982

Foreword
Acknowledgments
PART ONE Anthropology and National Media
1. Ethnography of a Nation
2. Interpreting Culture(s) after Television: On Method
PART TWO National Pedagogy
3. Rural "Ignorance" and the Virtues of Education
4. Development Realism, "Real Melodrama," and the Problem of Feminism
PART THREE The Eroding Hegemony of Developmentalism
5. Modern Subjects? Egyptian Melodrama and Postcolonial Difference
6. The Ambivalence of Authenticity: National Culture in a Global World
7. Managing Religion in the Name of National Community
8. Consumption and the Eroding Hegemony of Developmentalism
Conclusion: Star Magic and the Forms of National Affinity
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
Subjects


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