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Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 120
3601 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-1907
E-mail: elguindi@usc.edu
Personal Web Site:
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~elguindi/index.html
Research
Islam & Islamic Movements; Field Methods; Zapotec Culture; Arab Islamic Culture & Society; Visual Ethnography; Arab-American Ethnicity.
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Bio
Egyptian-born, Dr. El Guindi obtained a BA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo. She was subsequently employed at the Social Research Center. This led to her participation in the first full-scale ethnographic project to study the way of life of the Nubians of Egypt prior to the government-sponsored relocation considered necessary as the Nubian homeland was to be affected by the national project -- building the Aswan Dam to harness energy for development.
The Nubian project defined El Guindi's career course. Fieldwork and direct field contact resulted in her professional interest in anthropology. Her analysis of field data earned her a scholarship to the United States to obtain a Ph.D. in anthropology in a university of her choice. El Guindi wanted an area for her doctoral research culturally connected to the Arab East, yet different enough for achieving the externality methodologically needed in anthropology for sound analytic observations. The field site of her choice was Latin America and the institution most suited was the University of Texas in Austin, with its traditional scholarly renown in the area of Latin America. She earned a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1972.
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Education
BA - The American University in Cairo
Political Science - 1960
Ph.D. - University of Texas - Austin
Anthropology - 1972
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Recent Publications
Film
El Sebou': Egyptian Birth Ritual, 27-minute 16mm. color, funded by a Grant from the Smithsonian Institution, and sponsored by the Office of Folklife Programs, Smithsonian Institution. (Egyptian Celebration of Life Series) El Nil Research, 1986
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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Courses Taught
Ethnographic Film Analysis (Anth 475)
Ethnographic Film Theory in Historical Perspective (Anth 476)
Gender in the Middle east (SWMS 499)
Anthropology of the Middle East and Islam (Anth 327)
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Awards and Honors
UCLA Nominee for Younger Humanist Summer Stipend (1976).
UCLA Designated Representative & National Selectee to Scholar-Diplomat One-Week Seminar to "Draw a Map of Peace in the Middle East" at Department of State, Washington D.C. (1977).
Fulbright Islamic Civilization Senior Scholar 1981-1982.
Award For Excellence, Society for Visual Anthropology, November 1987.
Special Commendation, Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize. Manchester, England, March 1988.
Grand Prize, Best Ethnographic Film on Arab-Islamic Culture, International Mediterranean Festival for Visual Anthropology, Palermo, Sicily, November 1989.
Finalist, Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize for Material Culture, Ghurbal, 1999.
Meeting with President Clinton in White House, Cabinet Room on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Tuesday March 28, 2000.
Nominee for Candidacy, President of the American Anthropological Association, October, 2000.
Finalist, Katherine Briggs Folklore Award, for book Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance, November 2000.
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Professional Memberships
Fellow, American Anthropological Association; Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute
Fellow, Middle East Studies Association; Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt
Associate, Current Anthropology; Member, American Ethnological Society
Member, Society for Visual Anthropology; Member, American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies; Member, Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association
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