All things Arabia : Arabian identity and material culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Description:	xv, 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world, 2213-3844 ; volume 16 Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; v. 16.
Subject:	Ethnology -- Arabian Peninsula. Material culture -- Arabian Peninsula. Arabs -- Material culture. Civilization Ethnology Material culture Arabian Peninsula -- Civilization. Arabian Peninsula
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12535428

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Other authors / contributors:	Baird, Ileana Popa, editor. Yağcıoğlu, Hülya, editor.
ISBN:	9789004435919 9004435913 9789004435926
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: All things Arabia Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004435926

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Complex legacies : materiality, memory, and myth in the Arabian Peninsula / Ileana Baird
Frankincense and its Arabian burner / William Gerard Zimmerle
The tyranny of the pearl : desire, oppression, and nostalgia in the Lower Gulf / Victoria Hightower
Palm dates, power, and politics in pre-oil Kuwait / Eran Segal
Circulating things, circulating stereotypes : representations of Arabia in eighteenth-century imagination / Ileana Baird
"Who will change old lamps for new ones?" : Aladdin and his wonderful lamp in British and American children's entertainment / Jennie MacDonald
Creative cartography : from the Arabian Desert to the garden of Allah / Holly Edwards
Kinetic symbol : falconry as image vehicle in the United Arab Emirates / Yannis Hadjinicolaou
Al-Sadu weaving : significance and circulation in the Arabian Gulf / Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay
Head coverings, Arab identity, and new materialism / Joseph Donica
Written in silver : protective medallions from inner Oman / James Redman
From cradle to grave : a life story in jewelry / Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown
Cine-things : the revival of the Emirati past in Nojoom Alghanem's cinemascape / Chrysavgi Papagianni
Afterword: All things collected / Hülya Yağcıoğlu.

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