In the Time of Oil : Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town.

This compelling historical ethnography explores how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced dramatic transformation in their lives following the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, and now grapple with the prospect of this reso.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Limbert, Mandana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Collective memory > Oman > Bahlāʼ.
Islam > Oman > Bahlāʼ.
Social change > Oman > Bahlāʼ.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > Oman > Bahlāʼ.
Mémoire collective > Oman > Bahlā'.
Islam > Oman > Bahlā'.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect social > Oman > Bahlā'.
HISTORY > General.
Collective memory
Islam
Manners and customs
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects
Social change
Ibaditen
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Soziokultureller Wandel
Bürokratie
Gesellschaft > Bahlāʼ (Oman)
Sozialer Wandel > Oman.
Kollektives Gedächtnis > Oman.
Bahlāʼ (Oman) > Social life and customs.
Oman > Bahlāʼ
Oman
Bahlā
Bahlāʼ (Oman) > Sitte und Brauch.
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