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Agrarian transformation
Agrarian Transition
Agricultural Credit Bank
agricultural labor dynamics
agricultural mechanization
Animal Care
Author_Nicholas S. Hopkins
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class stratification analysis
Cotton Pest Control
Drum Threshers
Egypt rural conditions
Egyptian agrarian life
Egyptian Clover
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gender roles rural communities
Grape Vines
irrigation practices Egypt
Labor Contractor
Labor Process Model
land tenure systems
Large Capitalist Farmers
Large Families
Late Harvest Date
mechanization impact rural Egypt
Mit Ghamr
Petty Commodity Producers
Pump Owners
Rural Egypt
rural sociology
Sayyida Zeinab
Small Scale Commodity Production
Social Affairs Office
Socialist 1960s
Threshing Ground
Tractor Owners
Tractor Rental
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367013622
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The role of agricultural mechanization in the labor process in rural Egypt is the focus of this book, the first major anthropological study in Upper Egypt in a generation. Based on data gathered from a large village, the book portrays population trends, land-tenure patterns, irrigation practices, agricultural labor, mechanization, and marketing, and examines their implications for religion and local politics. The author emphasizes the changing role of the household and the relations between households, particularly the role of women and children. Especially important is Dr. Hopkins's interpretation of the process of differentiation, where class is seen as a dynamic outgrowth of the labor process rather than simply deduced from ownership or control of property. The paradox of his Egypt study is that while objective differentiation is present, class consciousness is not. Patterns of social control based on hierarchy and deference are still strong and ensure the reproduction of the social system.
