Mari Girgis. Village in Upper Egypt. BiGen 54.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 21684 |
| Format | 22 x 27.5 |
| Détails | 592 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
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Thirty years after its first version, the continued success of Nessim Henein's work led the IFAO to publish the third edition of a work that has remained unparalleled. This monograph, devoted to a hamlet that in the early 1970s had a little over three hundred people, is a discovery of rural Sa'id, guided by the ethnographic gaze of an educated city dweller from Cairo. An investigation carried out in immersion, it is "a pilgrimage to the sources, the awareness of a fundamental Egyptianness" (Charles Vial). Habitat, hunting, fishing and agricultural techniques, daily life of the inhabitants, clothing, religious practices and popular culture: Nessim Heneim thus captures a village society "from cellar to attic", on the eve of major changes. Like Edward William Lane's Description of Egypt or Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians, to which it was compared upon its publication, the now-classic book marks an important milestone in the history of modernity in rural Egypt. The third edition features a long interview with the author, in which he discusses his training, his method of observation, and the circumstances of his stays in Mārī Girgis.
Thirty years after its first version, the continued success of Nessim Henein's work led the IFAO to publish the third edition of a work that has remained unparalleled. This monograph, devoted to a hamlet that in the early 1970s had a little over three hundred people, is a discovery of rural Sa'id, guided by the ethnographic gaze of an educated city dweller from Cairo. An investigation carried out in immersion, it is "a pilgrimage to the sources, the awareness of a fundamental Egyptianness" (Charles Vial). Habitat, hunting, fishing and agricultural techniques, daily life of the inhabitants, clothing, religious practices and popular culture: Nessim Heneim thus captures a village society "from cellar to attic", on the eve of major changes. Like Edward William Lane's Description of Egypt or Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians, to which it was compared upon its publication, the now-classic book marks an important milestone in the history of modernity in rural Egypt. The third edition features a long interview with the author, in which he discusses his training, his method of observation, and the circumstances of his stays in Mārī Girgis.