Reification and Recognition in Egyptian Film Production
This paper was presented at the 2018 Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) Annual Conference at the University of Oxford
Tag: Anthropology
Two Questions to Marxist Anthropology
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2018) “Two Questions to Marxist Anthropology” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 16 (2), 656-665 https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.983
Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy (Report)
The study of bureaucracy has become a standard prerogative of English-language anthropology in recent years. Long gone are the days when bureaucracy was considered the exclusive realm of political scientists and sociologists, in an intellectual division of labour where anthropology …
Methodological Challenges in Studying the Egyptian Film Industry
This paper was given at a roundtable on methodological issues in Middle Eastern media studies at the 2018 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference in Toronto
Flawed Classics
‘No matter what you do, you should never stop reading. You must always read, read, and read…’ The words of an influential mentor still ring true years later. I have been afforded the opportunity to live up to his counsel …
Far Afield (Review)
VINCENT DEBAENE. Far Afield: French Anthropology between Science and Literature (trans. Justin Izzo). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, xv, 398 pp.ISBN 9780226107066 Far Afield traces the interactions between anthropological writing and literature in France from the end of the …
State Control over Film Production in Egypt
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2017) “State Control over Film Production in Egypt” Arab Media & Society, 23 http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=987
“What Does it Look Like?”: On the Use of Intermediary Images in Egyptian Film Production
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab. (2016). “‘What Does it Look Like?’: On the Use of Intermediary Images in Egyptian Film Production”, Visual Anthropology Review, 32 (2): 167-179
Living in Darkness
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2016) “Living in Darkness: Internet Humour and the Politics of Egypt’s Electricity Infrastructure” Anthropology Today, 32 (4), 21-24 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12268
Anthropologists and their Traditions (Review)
Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014, xi, 279 pp. Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders is an eclectic collection of essays on the …