Introduction. Townspeople, company people, and textiles : a woven history -- Pt. I. Gendered experiences -- 1. Competing masculinities : docile workers, aggressive afandiyya, and the mechanization of the modern subject -- 2. Urbanizing masculinity : workers, weavers, and futuwwat in violent...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Identity? -- 3. “That’s Not the Way We Do It at Gentay”: Feedback Mismatches -- 4. “I Wasn’t the Same Person”: Time Mismatches -- 5. “Me Caveman . . . I Club Deer”: Status Mismatches -- 6. “On the Mommy...