Mobility, liminality, and embodiment in urban Egypt

American Ethnologist

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 790-800

  Ghannam, Farha ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cairo; Class; Embodiment; Gender; Liminality; Mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155149625     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01337.x     Document Type: Article

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