Description: Further DetailsTitle: Tribal ModernCondition: NewEAN: 9780520280106ISBN: 9780520280106Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/21/2014Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 272gAuthor: Miriam CookeLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Branding New Nations in the Arab GulfISBN-10: 0520280105Description: 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 catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Modern explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding new nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity - an image used for projecting prestige at home and power abroad.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Tribal Modern
Title: Tribal Modern
EAN: 9780520280106
ISBN: 9780520280106
Release Date: 01/21/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
ISBN-10: 0520280105
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Tribal Modern : Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Gender Studies, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, Middle East / General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Miriam Cooke
Item Length: 8.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
