ISBN:
0253110416
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0253111218
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9780253110411
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9780253111210
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 199 p.)
Series Statement:
Indiana series in Middle East studies
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DDC:
305.8/0095691/44
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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Etnische betrekkingen
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Identificatie (psychologie)
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Altstadtsanierung
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Gruppenidentität
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Oberschicht
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Sozialstruktur
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Ethnology
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Social structure
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Group identity
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Oberschicht
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Sozialstruktur
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Gruppenidentität
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Altstadtsanierung
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Syrien
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Damaskus
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Electronic books
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Damaskus
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Oberschicht
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Altstadtsanierung
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Gruppenidentität
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Damaskus
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Oberschicht
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Altstadtsanierung
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Sozialstruktur
Note:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-187) and index
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Introduction: A return to the old -- "His family had a house in Malki, so we thought he was all right" : socio-spatial distinction -- "That color looks great on you" : consumption, display, and gender -- Old Damascus commodified -- Ramadan lived and consumed -- Conservation, preservation, and celebration -- Conclusion: Weapons of the not-so-weak -- Epilogue: Of hubble bubbles and cell phones
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"[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
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