Visual Anthropology

Fadwa El Guindi teaches in the Visual Anthropology Program at the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph. D. in anthropology from the University of Texas Austin and her field research includes work with Arab Nubian and Zapotec cultures and Arab-Americans. She is past president of the Society for Visual Anthropology a section of the American Anthropological Association and author of The Myth of Ritual: A Native's Ethnography of Life-Crisis Rituals (University of Arizona Press 1986). Her visual ethnographies include El Sebou': Egyptian Birth Ritual El Moulid: Egyptian Religious Festival and Ghurbal. Her most recent book Veil: Modesty Privacy and Resistance is a visual cultural and textual analysis of the phenomenon of veiling in the Arab East. Language: English