Why Kin marriages? Rationales in rural Upper Egypt

Authors

Hania Sholkamy, The American University in Cairo (AUC)Follow

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Department

Social Research Center (SRC)

Abstract

Have Western ways of understanding family ties and family change affected perceptions about these human ties in Middle Eastern populations? Have Western understandings of family also affected how people in Middle Eastern cultures understand themselves? The essays in this collection address questions like these, which academics have only recently begun to ask.

Publication Date

Winter 1-1-2008

Document Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Family in the Middle East ideational change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia

Editors

Kathryn M. Yount, Hoda Rashad

ISBN

1-135-97470-5

Publisher

Routledge

City

London, United Kingdom

First Page

139

Last Page

150

Keywords

Families, Middle East, Muslim families, Middle East, Social conditions

Recommended Citation

APA Citation

Sholkamy, H. (2008).Why Kin marriages? Rationales in rural Upper Egypt. Routledge. , 139-150
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_book_chapters/1208

MLA Citation

Sholkamy, Hania Why Kin marriages? Rationales in rural Upper Egypt. Routledge, 2008.pp. 139-150
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_book_chapters/1208