ISBN:
0253217229
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0253344670
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 199 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Indiana series in Middle East studies
Parallel Title:
Print version A New Old Damascus : Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria
DDC:
305.8/0095691/44
Keywords:
Ethnology
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Social structure
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Group identity
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Damascus (Syria) ; Religious life and customs
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Damascus (Syria) ; Social life and customs
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Ethnology ; Syria ; Damascus
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Group identity ; Syria ; Damascus
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Social structure ; Syria ; Damascus
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Electronic books
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Damascus (Syria) Social life and customs
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Damascus (Syria) Religious life and customs
;
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction: A Return to the Old; 1. ""His Family Had a House in Malki, So We Thought He Was All Right"":Socio-Spatial Distinction; 2. ""That Color Looks Great on You"": Consumption, Display, and Gender; 3. Old Damascus Commidified; 4. Ramadan Lived and Consumed; 5. Conservation, Preservation, and Celebration; Conclusion: Weapons of the Not-So-Weak; Epilogue / Of Hubble Bubbles and Cell Phones; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-187) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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