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Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises
This thesis experiments with archival ethnography to engage with the private and intimate family documents of an Egyptian Coptic family from the 1940s and 1950s. Through such an engagement this work attempts to make sense of the problematic of memory, time, history, and identity through the archival...
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| author | Mosbeh, Bahi Ashraf |
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| description | This thesis experiments with archival ethnography to engage with the private and intimate family documents of an Egyptian Coptic family from the 1940s and 1950s. Through such an engagement this work attempts to make sense of the problematic of memory, time, history, and identity through the archival remainders of this family as they navigate communal instability, change, and transformation that parallel equally significant socio-cultural transformations surrounding them. The intimacy of letters, handwritten notes, fragmentary notebook scraps and collections of personal and familial letters and photographs are explored to make sense of these quotidian negotiations of communal identity. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-3635 Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises Mosbeh, Bahi Ashraf This thesis experiments with archival ethnography to engage with the private and intimate family documents of an Egyptian Coptic family from the 1940s and 1950s. Through such an engagement this work attempts to make sense of the problematic of memory, time, history, and identity through the archival remainders of this family as they navigate communal instability, change, and transformation that parallel equally significant socio-cultural transformations surrounding them. The intimacy of letters, handwritten notes, fragmentary notebook scraps and collections of personal and familial letters and photographs are explored to make sense of these quotidian negotiations of communal identity. 2026-01-31T08:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2581 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3635/viewcontent/bahi_ashraf_mosbeh_thesis.pdf Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain Historical Anthropology; Family Archives Psychoanalytic Anthropology; Memory; Communal Formation; Ethnography Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| spellingShingle | Historical Anthropology; Family Archives Psychoanalytic Anthropology; Memory; Communal Formation; Ethnography Social and Cultural Anthropology Mosbeh, Bahi Ashraf Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises |
| title | Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises |
| title_full | Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises |
| title_fullStr | Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises |
| title_short | Ethical Communities, Care Practices, and Social Crises |
| title_sort | ethical communities care practices and social crises |
| topic | Historical Anthropology; Family Archives Psychoanalytic Anthropology; Memory; Communal Formation; Ethnography Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2581 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3635/viewcontent/bahi_ashraf_mosbeh_thesis.pdf |
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