All Things Arabia : Arabian Identity and Material Culture /
All Things Arabia : Arabian Identity and Material Culture /
Arabian Identity and Material Culture
edited by Ileana Baird, Hülya Yağcıoğlu.
- 1 online resource.
- Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World ; 16 .
- Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World ; 16. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Complex Legacies: Materiality, Memory, and Myth in the Arabian Peninsula -- Ileana Baird -- PART I. Arabia of the Old: The Things of the Trade -- Chapter 1. Frankincense and Its Arabian Burner -- William Gerard Zimmerle -- Chapter 2. The Tyranny of the Pearl: Desire, Oppression, and Nostalgia in the Lower Gulf -- Victoria Hightower -- Chapter 3. Palm Dates, Power, and Politics in Pre-Oil Kuwait -- Eran Segal -- PART II. Imagining Arabia: Exotic, Fabulous, and Misplaced Things -- Chapter 4. Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination -- Ileana Baird -- Chapter 5. "Who Will Change Old Lamps for New Ones?": Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in British and American Children's Entertainment -- Jennie MacDonald -- Chapter 6. Creative Cartography: From the Arabian Desert to the Garden of Allah -- Holly Edwards -- PART III. Emblems of Arabia: Things as Identity Markers -- Chapter 7. Kinetic Symbol: Falconry as Image Vehicle in the United Arab Emirates -- Yannis Hadjinicolaou -- Chapter 8. Al-Sadu Weaving: Significance and Circulation in the Arabian Gulf -- Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay -- Chapter 9. Head Coverings, Arab Identity, and New Materialism -- Joseph Donica -- Part IV. Post-Oil Arabia: Things, Memory, and Local Identity -- Chapter 10. Written in Silver: Protective Medallions from Inner Oman -- James Redman -- Chapter 11. From Cradle to Grave: A Life Story in Jewelry -- Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown -- Chapter 12. Cine-Things: The Revival of the Emirati Past in Nojoom Alghanem's Cinemascape -- Chrysavgi Papagianni -- Afterword: All Things Collected -- Hülya Yağcıoğlu.
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.
9789004435926 9789004435919
10.1163/9789004435926 DOI
Archaeology.
PS3525.I19
813.54
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Complex Legacies: Materiality, Memory, and Myth in the Arabian Peninsula -- Ileana Baird -- PART I. Arabia of the Old: The Things of the Trade -- Chapter 1. Frankincense and Its Arabian Burner -- William Gerard Zimmerle -- Chapter 2. The Tyranny of the Pearl: Desire, Oppression, and Nostalgia in the Lower Gulf -- Victoria Hightower -- Chapter 3. Palm Dates, Power, and Politics in Pre-Oil Kuwait -- Eran Segal -- PART II. Imagining Arabia: Exotic, Fabulous, and Misplaced Things -- Chapter 4. Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination -- Ileana Baird -- Chapter 5. "Who Will Change Old Lamps for New Ones?": Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in British and American Children's Entertainment -- Jennie MacDonald -- Chapter 6. Creative Cartography: From the Arabian Desert to the Garden of Allah -- Holly Edwards -- PART III. Emblems of Arabia: Things as Identity Markers -- Chapter 7. Kinetic Symbol: Falconry as Image Vehicle in the United Arab Emirates -- Yannis Hadjinicolaou -- Chapter 8. Al-Sadu Weaving: Significance and Circulation in the Arabian Gulf -- Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay -- Chapter 9. Head Coverings, Arab Identity, and New Materialism -- Joseph Donica -- Part IV. Post-Oil Arabia: Things, Memory, and Local Identity -- Chapter 10. Written in Silver: Protective Medallions from Inner Oman -- James Redman -- Chapter 11. From Cradle to Grave: A Life Story in Jewelry -- Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown -- Chapter 12. Cine-Things: The Revival of the Emirati Past in Nojoom Alghanem's Cinemascape -- Chrysavgi Papagianni -- Afterword: All Things Collected -- Hülya Yağcıoğlu.
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.
9789004435926 9789004435919
10.1163/9789004435926 DOI
Archaeology.
PS3525.I19
813.54