All things Arabia : Arabian identity and material culture / edited by Ileana Baird, Hülya Yağcıoğlu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baird, Ileana Popa, editor.

Yağcıoğlu, Hülya, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; v. 16.

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world, 2213-3844 ; volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Arabian Peninsula.

Ethnology.

Civilization.

Arabs.

Material culture.

Arabian Peninsula.

Material culture--Arabian Peninsula.

Arabs--Material culture.

Arabian Peninsula--Civilization.

Physical Description:

xv, 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"By employing the innovative lenses of thing theory and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia's things from-cultural objects to commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary things-in creating an Arabian identity over time. The Arabian identity that we convey here comprises both a fabulous Arabia that has haunted the European imagination for the past three hundred years and a real Arabia that has had its unique history, culture, and traditions outside the Orientalized narratives of the West. All Things Arabia aims to dispel existing stereotypes and stimulate new thinking about an area whose patterns of trade and cosmopolitanism have pollinated the world with lasting myths, knowledge, and things of beauty"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Arabia of the Old: The Things of the Trade

1. Frankincense and Its Arabian Burner / William Gerard Zimmerle

2. The Tyranny of the Pearl: Desire, Oppression, and Nostalgia in the Lower Gulf / Victoria Penziner Hightower

3. Palm Dates, Power, and Politics in Pre-Oil Kuwait / Eran Segal

pt. 2 Imagining Arabia: Exotic, Fabulous, and Misplaced Things

4. Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination / Ileana Baird

5. "Who Will Change New Lamps for Old Ones?": Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in British and American Children's Entertainment / Jennie MacDonald

6. Creative Cartography: From the Arabian Desert to the Garden of Allah / Holly Edwards

pt. 3 Emblems of Arabia: Things as Identity Markers

7. Kinetic Symbol: Falconry as Image Vehicle in the United Arab Emirates / Yannis Hadjinicolaou

8. Al-Sadu Weaving: Significance and Circulation in the Arabian Gulf / Ceyda Oskay

9. Head Coverings, Arab Identity, and New Materialism / Joseph Donica

pt. 4 Post-Oil Arabia: Things, Memory, and Local Identity

10. Written in Silver: Protective Medallions from Inner Oman / James Redman

11. From Cradle to Grave: A Life Story in Jewelry / Kara McKeown

12. Cine-Things: The Revival of the Emirati Past in Nojoom Alghanem's Cinemascape / Chrysavgi Papagiannc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: All things Arabia

ISBN:

9789004435919

9004435913

OCLC:

1195815342

Publisher Number:

99988374374