An Account Of The Manners And Customs Of The Modern Egyptians: Written In Egypt During The Years 1833-1835
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 3rd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few works of cultural documentation have endured with such scholarly tenacity as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians — a landmark of 19th-century ethnography born from years of immersive observation on the banks of the Nile. Written during Lane's extended residency in Egypt between 1833 and 1835, this richly detailed account chronicles the daily life, religious practices, social hierarchies, and intimate domestic customs of Egyptian society with a precision and empathy rare for its era. Lane, already celebrated as the translator of One Thousand and One Nights, brings a linguist's ear and an anthropologist's eye to bear on a civilization then largely mysterious to the Western world, presenting a portrait that is at once scholarly and deeply human. Reprinted here from the authoritative Third Edition and accompanied by eighty illustrations and sixteen full-page engravings, this Minerva Library edition ensures that Lane's monumental observations reach the widest possible audience. His prose is measured and authoritative, shaped by genuine linguistic fluency in Arabic and an uncommon willingness to participate in, rather than merely observe, Egyptian life. The work stands as a foundational text in the history of cultural anthropology and Middle Eastern studies, its influence traceable through generations of scholars and travellers alike. Will modern readers find, in Lane's meticulous Victorian gaze, a mirror held up to a world both vanished and surprisingly resonant?
Author: Edward William Lane
Format: Hardback
Published: 1890, Ward, Lock and Co.
Genre: Anthropology
Edition: 3rd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few works of cultural documentation have endured with such scholarly tenacity as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians — a landmark of 19th-century ethnography born from years of immersive observation on the banks of the Nile. Written during Lane's extended residency in Egypt between 1833 and 1835, this richly detailed account chronicles the daily life, religious practices, social hierarchies, and intimate domestic customs of Egyptian society with a precision and empathy rare for its era. Lane, already celebrated as the translator of One Thousand and One Nights, brings a linguist's ear and an anthropologist's eye to bear on a civilization then largely mysterious to the Western world, presenting a portrait that is at once scholarly and deeply human. Reprinted here from the authoritative Third Edition and accompanied by eighty illustrations and sixteen full-page engravings, this Minerva Library edition ensures that Lane's monumental observations reach the widest possible audience. His prose is measured and authoritative, shaped by genuine linguistic fluency in Arabic and an uncommon willingness to participate in, rather than merely observe, Egyptian life. The work stands as a foundational text in the history of cultural anthropology and Middle Eastern studies, its influence traceable through generations of scholars and travellers alike. Will modern readers find, in Lane's meticulous Victorian gaze, a mirror held up to a world both vanished and surprisingly resonant?