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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 hexis of interpretation : Islam and the body in the Egyptian popular school
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Ritual, Education
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Description
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This article examines how travelers, colonial officials, and educators have treated prayer and other body rituals in Egyptian popular schools. Once the object of colonial critiques of indigenous pedagogy, body ritual has now become the focus of a ...
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The varieties of secular experience
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Secularism, Religion
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Description
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Taking the Egyptian case as an example, this article examines secularism (and its cognates secularity and the secular), not so much as a failed social project, but as a problematic concept. Reflecting on the on-going scholarly interest in the noti...
