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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world,
volume 16 |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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 / Hülya Yağcıoğlu.