Passages to Modernity

Ryzova, Lucie

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“…Among anthropologists and historians working in the country, the national frame has often been axiomatic. It does not seem to matter whether the research topic is film (Armbrust 1996), television series (Abu-Lughod 2005), music (Danielson 1997;Van Nieuwkerk 1995), the fine arts (Winegar 2006), gendered domesticity (Pollard 2005), physical exercise (Jacob 2011), popular mass media (Fahmy 2011), urban emotions (Prestel 2017), tourism development (Ahlberg 2017), football fandom (Rommel 2021), the Islamic Revival (Hirschkind 2006), experiences of time and temporality (Barak 2013), or the emergence of the bourgeois independence movement in the early 20th century (Ryzova 2014). In all of these cases, the formation of national identities and debates about the nation's status and prestige have constituted the overarching thematic and analytical frame.…”

Section: Locating the Nationmentioning

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Green,

Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of ‘the field.’ The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places.

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Section: Locating the Nationmentioning

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Green,

Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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“…By stressing that there are languages for the 'middle class' , and others for the 'commoners,' the online publics of the footage arrived at an interpretation based on social distinction in which they expressed downward classism, or sentiments of hatred and disgust towards the people they perceived to be below them on the social ladder. It has been well-argued that the middle class has always framed itself as the primary representative of Egyptian society (Ryzova, 2014). Social media platforms, and particularly Facebook, enabled new ways of performing Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 16 (2023) 20-40 middle classness-by carefully curating personal profiles and communicating with a particular language.…”

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When the Silent Past Gets a Troubling Voice

Elsherif

2022

Middle East J. Cult. Commun.

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This article traces the contemporary (re)interpretations of a 14 minutes of American newsreel footage depicting 1928 Cairo as it circulated through popular Facebook communities dedicated to the nostalgic discourse of Egypt’s ‘good old days’ or ‘al-zaman al-gamīl,’ perceived as an era of morality and proper Egyptianness. Among the several orientalist scenes captured on the footage was a character improvisation perceived to be ‘profane’ by the proponents of this ideal imaginary of the past. Considering online and offline ethnography and discourse analysis of online commentaries, this article examines how nationalism, conspiracy theories, identity politics and post-revolutionary frustrations are discussed through the circulation of representations of the nation’s past. By tracing the pre-and post-digital life of this footage, it presents a case study on how cultural texts acquire meanings as they migrate from one medium to another and how online publics are formed around the (re)circulation and (re)interpretation of these texts.

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“…During the years to either side of the Second World War, however, these official posts and the places connected to them had also exemplified the rise of Egyptians in the Antiquities Service, many of whom belonged to the “new” effendiyya : broadly speaking, a group whose formal education in Egypt’s developing university system helped place them front and center in contesting what it meant to be a modern Egyptian (see e.g. Quirke, 2010: 96; Reid, 2015; Ryzova, 2014).…”

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Credibility, civility, and the archaeological dig house in mid-1950’s Egypt

Carruthers

2019

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This article argues that forms of civility governing who possessed the credibility to carry out archaeological fieldwork altered in Egypt during the post-World War II era of decolonization. Incorporating Arabic sources, the article focuses on the preparation of a dig house used during an excavation run by the Egyptian Department of Antiquities and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at the site of Mit Rahina, Egypt, in the mid-1950s. The study demonstrates how the colonial genealogies of such structures converged with political changes heralded by the rise of Nasser. Preparing the dig house, Euro-American archaeologists involved with the excavation had to abide by social norms practiced by the Egyptians who had recently taken charge of the Department of Antiquities. Given that these norms often perpetuated older hierarchies of race, gender, and class, however, the article questions what the end of colonialism actually meant for archaeology.

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Passages to Modernity

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

When the Silent Past Gets a Troubling Voice

Credibility, civility, and the archaeological dig house in mid-1950’s Egypt

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