Being Bedouin around Petra : life at a World Heritage Site in the twenty-first century /

Being Bedouin around Petra : life at a World Heritage Site in the twenty-first century /

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Author / Creator:Bille, Mikkel, author.
Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
©2019
Description:viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Bedouins -- Jordan -- Maʻān (Province) -- Social conditions.
Bedouins -- Jordan -- Maʻān (Province) -- Ethnic identity.
Heritage tourism -- Jordan -- Petra (Extinct city)
World Heritage areas -- Social aspects -- Jordan -- Petra (Extinct city)
Bedouins -- Social conditions.
Cultural appropriation.
Heritage tourism.
Jordan -- Petra (Extinct city)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11767661
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ISBN:9781789201208
1789201209
9781789201215
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?

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