ISBN:
0253111218
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9780253111210
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0253344670
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9780253344670
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0253217229
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9780253217226
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0253110416
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9780253110411
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 199 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Indiana series in Middle East studies
DDC:
305.8009569144
Keywords:
Ethnology Syria
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Damascus
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Social structure Syria
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Damascus
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Group identity Syria
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Damascus
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Ethnology Syria
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Damascus
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Group identity Syria
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Damascus
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Social structure Syria
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Damascus
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Damascus (Syria) Social life and customs
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Damascus (Syria) Religious life and customs
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Damaskus
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Damascus (Syria) Religious life and customs
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Damaskus
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Damascus (Syria) Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done ... [Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them."--Andrew ShryockIn contemporary urban Syri
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-187) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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