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Title
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Signposts along the road : monumental public writing in Egypt
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
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Description
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Studies of writing in developing societies generally focus on book, newspaper and commercial literacy, and do not address the cultural significance of writing on craft and manufactured objects, on the one hand, and the use of writing on public sig...
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The political economy of religious commodities in Cairo
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
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Description
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Anthropology’s rediscovery of material culture has emphasized the centrality of objects and their production in constituting human experience. In Egypt, the design, mass production and marketing of different classes of religious objects-from praye...
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Violence and the rhetoric of images
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Egypt, Terrorism, Photography, Semiotics
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Description
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This article is about the politics of visual representation, specifically about how the documentary photograph can be used to mobilize collectivities. Images become the medium for transnational political contests in which opposing groups mobilized...