The Farthest Place: Social Boundaries in an Egyptian Desert Community

The Farthest Place: Social Boundaries in an Egyptian Desert CommunityThis ethnographic account of a conglomerate of Egyptian villages in the Western Desert, envisaged as a government project to resettle populations from the Nile Valley and Delta, looks at how Abu Minqars existence is contingent upon social and spatial networks that reach beyond the boundaries of the physical community. Through marriage, spatial distribution, and agricultural practices, social spaces become apparent and illustrate the unbounded nature

drawing on the contributors’ long interest in the broad scope of his work

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enigmatic private investigator

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with the aim of highlighting insights which may be helpful for the development of Salmonella control programmes in other countries

the disease cycle and epidemiology

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The book features over 150 key items from across the collections

the religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography

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