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Bedouins --- Oral tradition --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Historiography --- Historiography. --- Jordan --- Genealogy. --- Genealogy

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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.

Bedouins --- Oral tradition --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Beduins --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Nomads --- North Africans --- Historiography --- National movements --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Jordan --- Genealogy. --- Giordania --- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan --- Hashimite Kingdom of the Jordan --- Jordania --- Jordanien --- Mamlaka al-Urduniya al-Hashemiyah --- Mamlakah al-Urdunīyah al-Hāshimīyah --- Urdun --- Urdunn --- Yarden --- Transjordan --- abbadi clan. --- adwani clan. --- anthropology. --- bedouin storytellers. --- community. --- contemporary middle east. --- folk history. --- folk narrative. --- genealogy. --- historical documents. --- historical memory. --- historical narrative. --- history. --- jordan. --- literacy. --- middle east. --- modernity. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- oral history. --- oral tradition. --- photographs. --- poetics. --- politics. --- textuality. --- tribal history. --- tribal identity. --- tribal jordan. --- village. --- world history. --- written history. --- Historiography.

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In 'Off Stage/On Display', ten scholars with diverse geographical, theoretical and topical interests take a close, critical look at the vexed relationship between public identities and the intimate spheres in which they are made. Why are public identities so predictably, and often so radically, different from identities that flourish in realms of collective intimacy? Why does belonging to a group, knowing about it, or displaying its qualities to others require that certain aspects of identification be denied—not because they are false or stereotypical, but because they are thought to be accurate and indispensable signs of membership?In Off Stage/On Display, ten scholars with diverse geographical, theoretical, and topical interests take a close, critical look at the vexed relationship between public identities and the intimate spheres in which they are made. They ask how scholars and activists can engage more creatively with problems encountered on this awkward terrain, which is now global both in location and political significance. Their answers, careful and suggestive, point to more effective strategies for representing aspects of identification that cannot be easily shown or, in an age of mass mediation, easily concealed (provided by publisher)

Ethnology --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Privacy --- Mass media and culture --- Group identity --- Popular culture

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Arab Americans --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions --- Detroit (Mich.) --- Detroit --- Diṭroiṭ (Mich.) --- Deṭroyṭ (Mich.) --- Town of Detroit (Mich.) --- City of Detroit (Mich.) --- Ethnic relations --- Américains d'origine arabe --- Arab Americans. --- Ethnic relations. --- Conditions sociales --- Identité ethnique --- Ethnic identity. --- Social conditions. --- Michigan --- Relations interethniques

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The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his lifeâ€"including hospitality, grace, the symbolic economy of reciprocity, kinship, the paradoxes of friendship, ritual logics, the anthropology of dress, and moreâ€"this omnibus brings his reflections to new life. Holding Pitt-Rivers's diversity of subjects and ethnographic foci in the same gaze, this book reveals a theoretical unity that ran through his work and highlights his iconic wit and brilliance. Striking at the heart of anthropological theory, the pieces here explore the relationship between the mental and the material, between what is thought and what is done.

Ethnology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings