Being Bedouin Around Petra : : Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century /

Being Bedouin Around Petra : : Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century / / Mikkel Bille.

Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Bille, Mikkel,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (210 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction In the Presence of Things
  • Chapter 1 Preserving Heritage – Marketing Bedouinity
  • Chapter 2 Taming Heritage
  • Chapter 3 The Shameful Shaman
  • Chapter 4 Dealing with Dead Saints
  • Chapter 5 The Allure of Things
  • Chapter 6 Ambiguous Materialities
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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