A Trade Like Any Other

Name: A Trade Like Any Other
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Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt

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In Egypt, singing and dancing are considered essential on happy occasions. Professional entertainers often perform at weddings and other celebrations, and a host family's prestige rises with the number, expense, and fame of the entertainers they hire. Paradoxically, however, the entertainers themselves are often viewed as disreputable people and are accorded little prestige in Egyptian society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
One. Introduction
Two. Female Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Three. Female Entertainment in The Twentieth Century
Four. Life Stories of Female Entertainers
Five. Marginality
Six. Honor and Shame
Seven. Gender
Eight. Female Entertainers: Feminine and Masculine
Nine. Conclusions
Appendix: Methodological Notes
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. September 1995

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

240

Autor/Autorin

Karin van Nieuwkerk

Verlag/Hersteller

University of Texas Press

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

399 g

Größe (L/B/H)

227/152/16 mm

ISBN

9780292787230

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Karin van Nieuwkerk

Karin van Nieuwkerk is an anthropologist and professor of contemporary Islam in Europe and the Middle East at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

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This fascinating ethnography of professional female entertainers in Egypt brings together issues and ideas relevant to dance, anthropology, ethnomusicology, gender studies, and area studies.... By providing new insight into historical, political, economic, religious, and cultural forces, van Nieuwkerk accounts for the ambivalent attitudes towards female professional performers in Egyptian society as well as the way they cope with their status.

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