All Things Arabia : Arabian Identity and Material Culture /

All Things Arabia : Arabian Identity and Material Culture /

By employing the innovative lenses of thing theory and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia's things from-cultural objects to commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary things-in creating an Arabian identity...

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Other Authors: Baird, Ileana (Editor), Yağcıoğlu, Hülya (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World ; 16.

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Call Number: PS3525.I19

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Complex Legacies: Materiality, Memory, and Myth in the Arabian Peninsula
  • Ileana Baird
  • PART I. Arabia of the Old: The Things of the Trade
  • Chapter 1. Frankincense and Its Arabian Burner
  • William Gerard Zimmerle
  • Chapter 2. The Tyranny of the Pearl: Desire, Oppression, and Nostalgia in the Lower Gulf
  • Victoria Hightower
  • Chapter 3. Palm Dates, Power, and Politics in Pre-Oil Kuwait
  • Eran Segal
  • PART II. Imagining Arabia: Exotic, Fabulous, and Misplaced Things
  • Chapter 4. Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination
  • Ileana Baird
  • Chapter 5. "Who Will Change Old Lamps for New Ones?": Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in British and American Children's Entertainment
  • Jennie MacDonald
  • Chapter 6. Creative Cartography: From the Arabian Desert to the Garden of Allah
  • Holly Edwards
  • PART III. Emblems of Arabia: Things as Identity Markers
  • Chapter 7. Kinetic Symbol: Falconry as Image Vehicle in the United Arab Emirates
  • Yannis Hadjinicolaou
  • Chapter 8. Al-Sadu Weaving: Significance and Circulation in the Arabian Gulf
  • Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay
  • Chapter 9. Head Coverings, Arab Identity, and New Materialism
  • Joseph Donica
  • Part IV. Post-Oil Arabia: Things, Memory, and Local Identity
  • Chapter 10. Written in Silver: Protective Medallions from Inner Oman
  • James Redman
  • Chapter 11. From Cradle to Grave: A Life Story in Jewelry
  • Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown
  • Chapter 12. Cine-Things: The Revival of the Emirati Past in Nojoom Alghanem's Cinemascape
  • Chrysavgi Papagianni
  • Afterword: All Things Collected
  • Hülya Yağcıoğlu.