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Evelyn A. Early, Baladi Women of Cairo: Playing with an Egg and a Stone (The American University in Cairo Press, 1993). Pp. 216

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Malak S. Rouchdy
Malak S. Rouchdy
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The American University in Cairo
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , May 1995 , pp. 244 - 247
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NOTES

1 Baladi refers to a local or to an indigenous cultural model, whereas Afrangi refers to a foreign Western cultural model.

2 For further details, cf. El-Messiri, Sawsan, Ibn al-Balad: A Concept of Egyptian Identity (Leiden:E. J. Brill, 1978).Google Scholar

3 Cf. Redclift, Nanneke and Mingioni, Enzo, eds., Beyond Employment, Household, Gender and Subsistence (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985).Google Scholar Also, cf. Rouchdy, Malak S., “Peasants and Merchants in Batra. The Process of Economic Transformation and Diversification in an Egyptian Village” (Ph.D.diss., University of Durham, England, 1990).Google Scholar