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11%OFFMandana Limbert - In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town - 9780804756273 - V9780804756273
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In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town

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Description for In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town Paperback. 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 resource's future depletion. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBXM; HBJF1; HBLW3; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation following the discovery of oil, and how they now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion.
Focusing on shifting structures of governance and new ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804756273
SKU
V9780804756273
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About Mandana Limbert
Mandana Limbert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Reviews for In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
"This is a timely and important book that highlights the power of ethnography to engage questions that cut across scale and national boundaries. Bringing to the center notions of mobility and belonging that exceed national frames, it adds to an emergent field of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula, and other fluid transregional spaces."
Jatin Dua
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