Tribal modern : branding new nations in the Arab Gulf /

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"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 catc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooke, Miriam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Temas:
Ethnology > Persian Gulf States.
Tribes > Persian Gulf States.
Ethnologie > États du golfe Persique.
Tribus > États du golfe Persique.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Ethnology
Manners and customs
Tribes
Etnologi.
Stamsamhällen.
Persian Gulf States > Social life and customs.
États du golfe Persique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Persian Gulf States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Uneasy cosmopolitanism
  • Pure blood and the new nation
  • The idea of the tribe
  • The brand
  • Building the brand
  • Heritage engineering
  • Performing national identity
  • Gendering the tribal modern
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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