ISBN:
9780429692611
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306/.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- About the Book and Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Anthropology and Agricultural Change In Egypt -- Rural Egypt -- The Social Organization of Agricultural Production in Egypt -- Plan of the Book -- Methodology -- Participant Observation -- Household Budget Study -- Women's Time Use Study -- Conclusion -- 2 Agrarian Transformation in Egypt -- The Agrarian Transition Model -- The Labor Process Model -- Conclusion: Implications of the Models -- 3 A Village in Upper Egypt -- The Setting: The Zinnar Basin Region -- Ecological Zones -- The Regional Village System -- The Land -- The Village -- Access -- Streets and Houses -- Utilities -- Religious Institutions -- Markets and Shops -- Early History -- Recent Political History -- Public Institutions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 People and Land -- Population -- Land Tenure System -- Land Records and Systems -- Taxation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 The Household -- Household Composition and Organization -- Occupation and Source of Income -- Reproduction: Marriage and Family Life -- Production: Household Strategies -- Examples of Musha Households -- Landless -- Landed -- Household and Labor Process -- Notes -- 6 Women and the Household -- The Women's Household Sample -- Women's Work -- Women and Food Consumption -- Women's Leisure -- Education and Marriage -- Implications of the Sexual Division of Labor -- Notes -- 7 Mechanization and the Labor Process -- The Social Organization of Water Lifting in Musha -- Technical -- Social and Economic -- The Social Organization of Tractor Use in Musha -- Tractor Management -- Tractor Owners -- Commentary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 The Labor Process and the Labor Market in Agriculture -- The Labor Process for Wheat and Cotton -- Wheat -- Cotton -- The Labor Market.
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URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5829526
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