Being Bedouin Around Petra

Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-120-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

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 lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bille, Mikkel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of 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

Über Autor(innen)

Bille, Mikkel
Mikkel Bille is an Associate Professor at Roskilde University. His research focuses on the role of material culture from the recent past in contemporary society.