03026nam 2200613 450 991045346520332120200520144314.00-520-28010-50-520-95726-110.1525/9780520957268(CKB)2550000001136926(EBL)1495631(OCoLC)861559591(SSID)ssj0001047763(PQKBManifestationID)12471003(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001047763(PQKBWorkID)11160091(PQKB)10166929(MiAaPQ)EBC1495631(DE-B1597)520068(DE-B1597)9780520957268(Au-PeEL)EBL1495631(CaPaEBR)ebr10786985(CaONFJC)MIL536628(EXLCZ)99255000000113692620131107d2014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrTribal modern branding new nations in the arab gulf /Miriam CookeBerkeley, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (223 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28009-1 1-306-05377-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexIn 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.EthnologyPersian Gulf StatesPersian Gulf StatesSocial life and customsElectronic books.Ethnology306.09536Cooke Miriam658450MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453465203321Tribal modern2447145UNINA