{"product_id":"martyrs-and-tricksters-9780691162638","title":"Martyrs and Tricksters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Enriching book.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Sultan, \u003ci\u003eIsrael Journal of Foreign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eM\u003ci\u003eartyrs and Tricksters\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Hesham Shafick, \u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403808153943,"sku":"9780691162638","price":78.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691162638.jpg?v=1730484607","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/martyrs-and-tricksters-9780691162638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}