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The object of this study is to examine the changing relationship between Egyptian petty commodity production and its wider social context within a transnational frame. Its concern is to understand the paradoxical persistence in the postmodern world of productive forms that appea…

This dissertation takes an organological, historical, and ethnographic approach to the study of innovative violin making in the twenty-first century. The violin is a long-established icon as well as a tool for the production of sound, and consequently, attempts to alter its trad…