- Fadwa El Guindi
Fadwa El Guindi is an
Egypt ian-born professor ofanthropology with a PhD in anthropology from theUniversity of Texas at Austin (1972).El Guindi graduated from the
American University inCairo ,Egypt with a BA in Political Science. She worked at the Social Research Centre, and participated in the first full-scale ethnographic project to study the way of life of theNubians of Egypt prior to their government-sponsored relocation due to the building of theAswan Dam .In 1986, she made the film ', which was sponsored by the Office of Folklife Programs at the
Smithsonian Institution . She also guest-starred asJulian Bashir 's mother, Amsha Bashir, in the ' episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume? ", oppositeSiddig El Fadil andBrian George .Books
*"The Myth of Ritual: A Native's Ethnography of Zapotec Life-Crisis Rituals". Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1986.
*"Veil: Modesty, Privacy, Resistance". Berg Publishers. 1999.Articles
*Veiling Infitah with Muslim Ethic: Egypt's Contemporary Islamic Movement. "Social Problems" 28(4): 465-485 (1981).
*From Pictorializing to Visual Anthropology. In "Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology". H. Russell Bernard, editor. Altamira Press, Sage Publications, 459-511,1998.
*Beyond Picturing Culture: A Critique of a Critique. "American Anthropologist" 103(2):1-6, 2001
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