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Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
Miriam Cooke
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Description for Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
Paperback. Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, this title explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280106
SKU
V9780520280106
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About Miriam Cooke
miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University and author of several books, most recently Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (Duke, 2007) and Nazira Zeineddine: Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer (Oneworld, 2010).
Reviews for Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
"Cooke is at her best scrutinising how the Gulf projects this tribal modern brand in its heritage industry." Financial Times "Cooke's eclectic depiction of the reinvention of tribal identity makes use of the Arabic term barzakh, which she defines as the meeting
but not commingling
of two distinct elements, to capture the chemistry between tribal heritage and modernity." ... Read more
but not commingling
of two distinct elements, to capture the chemistry between tribal heritage and modernity." ... Read more