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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453465203321

Autore

Cooke Miriam

Titolo

Tribal modern : branding new nations in the arab gulf / / Miriam Cooke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-28010-5

0-520-95726-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

306.09536

Soggetti

Ethnology - Persian Gulf States

Electronic books.

Persian Gulf States Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Uneasy Cosmopolitanism -- 2. Pure Blood and the New Nation -- 3. The Idea of the Tribe -- 4. The Brand -- 5. Building the Brand -- 6. Heritage Engineering -- 7. Performing National Identity -- 8. Gendering the Tribal Modern -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1970's, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Modern explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding new nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity-an image used for projecting prestige at home and power abroad.



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00300935

Autore

THIBAULT, André

Titolo

Dictionnaire suisse romand : particularités lexicales du français contemporain / une contribution au trésor des vocaboulaires francophones conçu et redigé par André Thibault ; sous la direction de Pierre Knecht ; avec la collaboration de Gisèle Boeri ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genève, : Zoé, 1997

ISBN

28-8182-316-5

Descrizione fisica

854 p. ; 24 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

BOERI, Gisèle

KNECHT, Pierre

Disciplina

447.9

Soggetti

Lingua francese - Svizzera - Dizionari

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia