All Things Arabia Arabian Identity and Material Culture
"By employing the innovative lenses of thing theory and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia's things from-cultural objects to commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary things-in creating an Arabian id...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill NV
[2021]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ;
Volume 16. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009605749106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Complex legacies : materiality, memory, and myth in the Arabian Peninsula / Ileana Baird
- Frankincense and its Arabian burner / William Gerard Zimmerle
- The tyranny of the pearl : desire, oppression, and nostalgia in the Lower Gulf / Victoria Hightower
- Palm dates, power, and politics in pre-oil Kuwait / Eran Segal
- Circulating things, circulating stereotypes : representations of Arabia in eighteenth-century imagination / Ileana Baird
- "Who will change old lamps for new ones?" : Aladdin and his wonderful lamp in British and American children's entertainment / Jennie MacDonald
- Creative cartography : from the Arabian Desert to the garden of Allah / Holly Edwards
- Kinetic symbol : falconry as image vehicle in the United Arab Emirates / Yannis Hadjinicolaou
- Al-Sadu weaving : significance and circulation in the Arabian Gulf / Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay
- Head coverings, Arab identity, and new materialism / Joseph Donica
- Written in silver : protective medallions from inner Oman / James Redman
- From cradle to grave : a life story in jewelry / Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown
- Cine-things : the revival of the Emirati past in Nojoom Alghanem's cinemascape / Chrysavgi Papagianni
- Afterword: All things collected / Hu¨lya Yag?ciog?lu.
