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 id...

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Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Baird, Ileana Popa (Editor), Yağcıoğlu, Hülya (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world. volume 16.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"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 over time. The Arabian identity that we convey here comprises both a fabulous Arabia that has haunted the European imagination for the past three hundred years and a real Arabia that has had its unique history, culture, and traditions outside the Orientalized narratives of the West. All Things Arabia aims to dispel existing stereotypes and stimulate new thinking about an area whose patterns of trade and cosmopolitanism have pollinated the world with lasting myths, knowledge, and things of beauty"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004435926
9004435921
ISSN:2213-3844 ;