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A new old Damascus : authenticity and distinction in urban Syria
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ISBN: 0253217229 0253344670 9780253217226 9780253344670 Year: 2004 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Filled 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. In contemporary urban Syria, debates about the representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have become part of status competition and identity construction among the city's elite. In theme restaurants and nightclubs that play on images of Syrian tradition, in television programs, nostalgic literature, and visual art, and in the rhetoric of historic preservation groups, the idea of the Old City has become a commodity for the consumption of tourists and, most important, of new and old segments of the Syrian upper class. In this lively ethnographic study, Christa Salamandra argues that in deploying and debating such representations, Syrians dispute the past and criticize the present.

A new old Damascus
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ISBN: 142378958X 0253111218 9780253111210 0253344670 9780253344670 0253217229 9780253217226 0253110416 9780253110411 1282072315 9781282072312 9781423789581 0253345685 9780253345684 0253217628 9780253217622 Year: 2004 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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""[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 contemporar

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Maasai (African people) --- Women, Maasai --- Lumbwa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Maa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Masai --- Masai (African people) --- Massai (African people) --- Ethnology --- Maasai women --- Women, Masai --- Women, Masai (African people) --- Religion. --- Religious life --- Congregation of the Holy Ghost --- Catholic Church --- Holy Ghost Fathers --- Congrégation du St. Esprit --- Genossenschaft vom Hl. Geist --- Spiritains --- Spiritans --- Missions --- Ethnology - Syria - Damascus. --- Social structure --- Group identity --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Damascus (Syria) --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs.


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Syria from reform to revolt.
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ISBN: 0815653514 9780815653516 9780815634256 Year: 2015 Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,

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Syria from reform to revolt
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ISBN: 9780815633778 9780815634256 9780815634157 0815633777 0815634250 0815634153 Year: 2015 Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,

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Islam and Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9781477308882 1477308881 9781477308875 1477308873 9781477309049 1477309047 9781477308899 Year: 2021 Publisher: Austin

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