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"Enriching book."---David Sultan, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
"In Martyrs and Tricksters, Walter Armbrust contributes to the emerging literature introducing the trickster as a central actor in the political field through an ethnographic analysis of the rise of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power in Egypt. Suggesting that political ambivalence can itself be a source of power and rejecting attempts to understand trickster figures through traditional models of hegemony-building, this book will be as useful to students of political sociology as it is to those of revolution, history and the ethnography of the Middle East."---Hesham Shafick, LSE Review of Books

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 06/08/2019
      ISBN13: 9780691162638, 978-0691162638
      ISBN10: 0691162638
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      Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions Political science and theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Enriching book."---David Sultan, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
      "In Martyrs and Tricksters, Walter Armbrust contributes to the emerging literature introducing the trickster as a central actor in the political field through an ethnographic analysis of the rise of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power in Egypt. Suggesting that political ambivalence can itself be a source of power and rejecting attempts to understand trickster figures through traditional models of hegemony-building, this book will be as useful to students of political sociology as it is to those of revolution, history and the ethnography of the Middle East."---Hesham Shafick, LSE Review of Books

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