erstitions and mistaken beliefs he had eloquently condemned the custom that women observed, of leaving offerings at the graves of the dead...He and other teachers had even succeeded in uniting the villagers against a man who was known to perform exorcism rituals for women, secret Ethiopian rites called Zar" (Ghosh 146). Ghosh's close interactions with the villagers permits him to see issues of significance to Egyptians, from fundamentalism and religious extremism to gender issues and those of politics.
Travel is part of the author's methods, as he even travels to Mangalore to see what it was like when Ben Yiju and Bomma were forced to relocate there. It is while living in the villages that Egyptian farmers become Abu-Lughod's friends and even exte
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