02905nam 2200673Ia 450 991082752300332120200520144314.00-8047-7460-910.1515/9780804774604(CKB)2670000000029270(EBL)543997(OCoLC)646788109(SSID)ssj0000420420(PQKBManifestationID)12109017(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000420420(PQKBWorkID)10392608(PQKB)10218434(MiAaPQ)EBC543997(DE-B1597)564765(DE-B1597)9780804774604(Au-PeEL)EBL543997(CaPaEBR)ebr10394879(OCoLC)1198929541(EXLCZ)99267000000002927020100224d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrIn the time of oil piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town /Mandana E. Limbert1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20101 online resource (263 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-5626-0 0-8047-5627-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Names and Transliteration; 1. In the Dreamtime of Oil: Wealth and Development in an Anomalous Time; 2. Now, the Police Only Drive: Remembering Rule and Disorder in Bahla; 3. In the Eye of the Neighbor, There is Fire: Hazards and Histories of Sociality; 4. Circles of Knowledge: Religious Learning, Pious Pasts, and Alternative Sociality; 5. Senses of Water: Nostalgia, Private Ownership, and Bodily Privacy; 6. Becoming Bahlawi: Race, Genealogy, and the Politics of Arabness7. Perhaps He Has a Son: Succession, Depletion, and the Uncertain Future Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis compelling historical ethnography explores how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced dramatic transformation in their lives following the discovery of oil in the late 1960's, and now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion.Collective memoryOmanBahlaIslamOmanBahlaSocial changeOmanBahlaPetroleum industry and tradeSocial aspectsOmanBahlaBahla (Oman)Social life and customsCollective memoryIslamSocial changePetroleum industry and tradeSocial aspects953.53Limbert Mandana E1720968MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827523003321In the time of oil4120087UNINA