Religion and Folk Cosmology: Scenarios of the Visible and Invisible in Rural Egypt

From: Journal of American Folklore | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Religion and Folk Cosmology: Scenarios of the Visible and Invisible in Rural Egypt. By El-Sayed Al-Aswad. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiv + 206, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index.)

There are three fundamental categories of person in Egypt: nomads, city dwellers, and peasants. A significant body of work exists on the shifting political economy, social organization, and poetics of the Bedouin, and much contemporary work is being done on urbanization, modernization and globalization, focusing on the urban middle class. By contrast, the peasant has received relatively short ...

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