LEADER 03984nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910454844703321 005 20211001232723.0 010 $a1-4008-1693-9 010 $a0-691-19478-5 010 $a1-282-75175-1 010 $a9786612751752 010 $a1-4008-2098-7 010 $a1-4008-1248-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400820986 035 $a(CKB)111056486507908 035 $a(EBL)581621 035 $a(OCoLC)700688645 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000172698 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155677 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172698 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10161803 035 $a(PQKB)10708850 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581621 035 $a(OCoLC)51604160 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35958 035 $a(DE-B1597)446079 035 $a(OCoLC)979623519 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400820986 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581621 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035798 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275175 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486507908 100 $a19930510d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHome and homeland$b[electronic resource] $ethe dialogics of tribal and national identities in Jordan /$fLinda L. Layne 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $c:Princeton University Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (207 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-19477-7 311 0 $a0-691-09478-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures and Table --$tPreface --$tA Note on Transliteration --$tChapter 1. Rethinking Collective Identity --$tChapter 2. A Generation of Change --$tChapter 3. 'Arab Architectonics --$tChapter 4. Capitalism and the Politics of Domestic Space --$tChapter 5. National Representations: The Tribalism Debate --$tChapter 6. The Election of Identity --$tChapter 7. Constructing Culture and Tradition in the Valley --$tChapter 8. Monarchal Posture --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aIn this provocative examination of collective identity in Jordan, Linda Layne challenges long-held Western assumptions that Arabs belong to easily recognizable corporate social groups. Who is a "true" Jordanian? Who is a "true" Bedouin? These questions, according to Layne, are examples of a kind of pigeonholing that has distorted the reality of Jordanian national politics. In developing an alternate approach, she shows that the fluid social identities of Jordan emerge from an ongoing dialogue among tribespeople, members of the intelligentsia, Hashemite rulers, and Western social scientists. Many commentators on social identity in the Middle East limit their studies to the village level, but Layne's goal is to discover how the identity-building processes of the locality and of the nation condition each other. She finds that the tribes create their own cultural "homes" through a dialogue with official nationalist rhetoric and Jordanian urbanites, while King Hussein, in turn, maintains the idea of the "homeland" in ways that are powerfully influenced by the tribespeople. The identities so formed resemble the shifting, irregular shapes of postmodernist land-scapes--but Hussein and the Jordanian people are also beginning to use a classically modernist linear narrative to describe themselves. Layne maintains, however, that even with this change Jordanian identities will remain resistant to all-or-nothing descriptions. 606 $aBedouins$zJordan$xEthnic identity 607 $aJordan$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBedouins$xEthnic identity. 676 $a956.95/004927 700 $aLayne$b Linda L$0890358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454844703321 996 $aHome and homeland$92465010 997 $aUNINA