Fadwa El Guindi
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Fadwa El Guindi is an Egyptian-born professor of anthropology with a PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin (1972).
El Guindi graduated from the American University in Cairo, 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 the Nubians of Egypt prior to their government-sponsored relocation due to the building of the Aswan Dam.
In 1986, she made the film El Sebou': Egyptian Birth Ritual, which was sponsored by the Office of Folklife Programs at the Smithsonian Institution. She also guest-starred as Julian Bashir's mother, Amsha Bashir, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?", opposite Siddig El Fadil and Brian George.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
