Title: dubious...
Product review: Nobody should read this book without reading Tim Mitchell's account of the author and book in The Rule of Experts (2002) -- it's clear that Critchfield deliberately left out a long history of social and economic change, and may have plagiarized sections of Ayrout's The Egyptian Peasant, writing a book that is more of a confirmation of western readers' expectations (and hence very well-received) than an ethnography.
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