All Things Arabia : Arabian identity and material culture / / edited by Ileana Baird and Hülya Yağcıoğlu |
Autore | Baird Ileana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) |
Disciplina | 306.0953 |
Collana | Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization
Ethnology Material culture |
Soggetto non controllato | Middle Eastern history |
ISBN | 90-04-43592-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Complex legacies : materiality, memory, and myth in the Arabian Peninsula / Ileana Baird -- Frankincense and its Arabian burner / William Gerard Zimmerle -- The tyranny of the pearl : desire, oppression, and nostalgia in the Lower Gulf / Victoria Hightower -- Palm dates, power, and politics in pre-oil Kuwait / Eran Segal -- Circulating things, circulating stereotypes : representations of Arabia in eighteenth-century imagination / Ileana Baird -- "Who will change old lamps for new ones?" : Aladdin and his wonderful lamp in British and American children's entertainment / Jennie MacDonald -- Creative cartography : from the Arabian Desert to the garden of Allah / Holly Edwards -- Kinetic symbol : falconry as image vehicle in the United Arab Emirates / Yannis Hadjinicolaou -- Al-Sadu weaving : significance and circulation in the Arabian Gulf / Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay -- Head coverings, Arab identity, and new materialism / Joseph Donica -- Written in silver : protective medallions from inner Oman / James Redman -- From cradle to grave : a life story in jewelry / Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown -- Cine-things : the revival of the Emirati past in Nojoom Alghanem's cinemascape / Chrysavgi Papagianni -- Afterword: All things collected / Hülya Yağcıoğlu. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910476894203321 |
Baird Ileana | ||
Brill, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Saudi Arabia in transition : insights on social, political, economic and religious change / edited by Bernard Haykel, Thomas Hegghammer, Stéphane Lacroix |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | VII, 351 p. ; 23 cm. |
Disciplina | 306.0953(Cultura e istituzioni. Arabia Saudita) |
Soggetto topico | ARABIA SAUDITA - Condizioni economiche e sociali |
ISBN | 978-05-211-8509-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNIOR-UON00476016 |
Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. L'Orientale | ||
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