Tribal Modern
Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Mode…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95726-8
- EAN: 9780520957268
- Produktnummer: 21596315
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'957 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University and author of several books, most recently Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (Duke, 2007) and Nazira Zeineddine: Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer (Oneworld, 2010).
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