| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 167 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreward -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Introduction by Morroe Berger -- Author's Introduction: On Understanding the Fellah -- 1. Changelessness -- 2. Egypt, an Agricultural Country -- 3. Landowners and Government -- 4. The Fellah at Work -- 5. The Physical Fellah -- 6. The Village and the Peasant Group -- 7. The Fellah's Home and Family -- 8. Traditions of the Soil -- 9. The Psychology of the Fellah -- 10. The Distress of the Fellah -- Epilogue: Progress -- A Critical Bibliography -- Glossary of Arabic Terms |
| Summary |
"Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. But the conservative and traditional world of unremitting labor that characterizes the lives of the Egyptian peasants, or fellaheen, also survives, and nowhere has it been better described than in this classic account by Father Henry Habib Ayrout, an Egyptian Jesuit sociologist who dedicated most of his life to creating a network of free schools for rural children at a time when there were very few. First published in French in 1938, the book went through several revisions by the author before being translated and published in English in 1963"--Jacket |
| Notes |
Translation of: Mœurs et coutumes des fellahs, published in France in 1938; this English translation with revisions by the author originally published by Beacon Press in 1963--title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Peasants -- Egypt
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt.
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Manners and customs
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Peasants
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Kleinbauer
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Boeren.
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041333
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| Subject |
Egypt
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Ägypten
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, John Alden
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| ISBN |
9781617975004 |
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1617975001 |
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9781617972492 |
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1617972495 |
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