All things Arabia Arabian identity and material culture

"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 id...

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Other Authors: Baird, Ileana Popa (Editor), Yağcıoğlu, Hülya (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2021, [2021]
Series:Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9004435921
9789004435919