Family, Power, and Politics in Egypt: Sayed Bey Mare--His Clan, Clients, and Cohorts

This political anthropology is the first to explicitly utilize the family as a basic conceptual tool in understanding a Middle Eastern political system. Springborg scrutinizes the familial, social, and political context of Marei's career, and discusses how the rural nobility of the late ninetee...

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Main Author: Springborg, Robert 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Press [2016]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807547
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807547
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807547
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807547
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807547
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807547
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807547
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807547
Summary:This political anthropology is the first to explicitly utilize the family as a basic conceptual tool in understanding a Middle Eastern political system. Springborg scrutinizes the familial, social, and political context of Marei's career, and discusses how the rural nobility of the late nineteenth century has used regional, family, patron-client, and small-group loyalties to maintain its power under Nasser and Sadat
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Physical Description:1 online resource illus
ISBN:9781512807547
DOI:10.9783/9781512807547