Cultivating the past, living the modern : the politics of time in the Sultanate of Oman / Amal Sachedina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sachedina, Amal, 1974- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Oman.

Material culture.

Cultural property--Oman.

Cultural property.

Oman--History--20th century.

Oman.

Oman--History--21st century.

Oman--Civilization--History.

Oman--Politics and government--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern' explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913-1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Oman - such as old mosques and shari'a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee pot or the dagger (khanjar), and archaeological sites - have saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past.

Contents:

Introduction: heritage discourse and its alterities

Reform and revolt through the pen and the sword

Nizwa Fort and the dalla during the Imamate

Museum effects

Ethics of history-making

Nizwa, city of memories

Nizwa's lasting legacy of slavery

The al-Lawati as a historical category

Conclusion: cultivating the past.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501758614

1501758616

9781501758621

1501758624

OCLC:

1224043928