Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern : The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman /

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"Centered in Muscat and Nizwa, the book analyzes the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913-1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Key locales and objects become sites for tracking transformations in forms of history, religio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sachedina, Amal, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government.
Material culture > Social aspects.
Cultural property.
Civilization.
Cultural property > Oman > History.
Material culture > Social aspects > Oman.
Material culture > Political aspects > Oman.
Oman.
Oman > Politics and government > History.
Oman > Civilization > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: heritage discourse and its alterities
  • Reform and revolt through the pen and the sword
  • Nizwa Fort and the dalla during the Imamate
  • Museum effects
  • Ethics of history-making
  • Nizwa, city of memories
  • Nizwa's lasting legacy of slavery
  • The al-Lawati as a historical category
  • Conclusion: cultivating the past.

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