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A new old Damascus : authenticity and distinction in urban Syria /
"[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Indiana series in Middle East studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done ... [Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them."--Andrew ShryockIn contemporary urban Syri |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253111218 9780253111210 0253344670 9780253344670 0253217229 9780253217226 0253110416 9780253110411 1282072315 9781282072312 |