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A new old Damascus : authenticity and distinction in urban Syria / Christa Salamandra

Salamandra, Christa [Verfasser]

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (x, 199 pages) : Illustrations

Indiana series in Middle East studies

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index

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.

0-253-11121-8 ; 978-0-253-11121-0 ; 0-253-34467-0 ; 978-0-253-34467-0 ; 0-253-21722-9 ; 978-0-253-21722-6 ; 0-253-11041-6 ; 978-0-253-11041-1 ; 0-253-34467-0

LB 40350

 

"[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.