Poetics of Political Economy in Egypt by Kristin Koptiuch PAPERBACK

Poetics of Political Economy in EgyptAuthor(s): Kristin Koptiuch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816625390, 978-0816625390\nSynopsis\nAnalyzes how economic transformation changes the meaning of artisanship.\n\nOriginal in perspective, innovative in approach, this book investigates the changing relationship between Egypts urban artisanry and the larger socio-historical transformations of the Egyptian economy. \n\nFocusing on two key historical periods in the early and late twentieth century, Kristin Koptiuch examines the political and economic conditions that affected the role of the artisan in Egypt over time. She is particularly interested in how the politics of representation in different modes of discourse-colonialist, nationalist, developmentalist, ethnographic-have alternatively cast Egypts craft production as outmoded artisanry and as an ingenious, micro-entrepreneurial informal se.