Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination

Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-520-20101-9
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 363 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: University of California Press

This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate historians lead him through a world of hidden documents, contested photographs, and meticulously reconstructed pedigrees, Andrew Shryock describes how he becomes enmeshed in historical debates, ranging from the local to the national level.

The world the Bedouin inhabit is rich in oral tradition and historical argument, in subtle reflections on the nature of truth and its relationship to poetics, textuality, and power. Skillfully blending anthropology and history, Shryock discusses the substance of tribal history through the eyes of its creators—those who sustain an older tradition of authoritative oral history and those who have experimented with the first written accounts. His focus throughout is on the development of a "genealogical nationalism" as well as on the tensions that arise between tribe and state.

Rich in both personal revelation and cultural implications, this book poses a provocative challenge to traditional assumptions about the way history is written.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shryock, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. WRITING ORAL HISTORIES

2. A CITY OF SHADOWY OUTLINES

3. REMEMBERING THE SWORD AND LANCE

4. DOCUMENTATION AND THE WAR OF WORDS

5. BORDER CROSSINGS

6. FROM HEARSAY TO REVELATION

7. PUBLICATION AND THE REDISTRIBUTION OF POWER

8. POPULAR GENEALOGICAL NATIONALISM

Appendix A: Transliterations of 'Abbadi and 'Adwani Poems

Appendix B: The Parliamentary Elections of:1989

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Shryock is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Buffalo.