All Things Arabia

Arabian Identity and Material Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43591-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 16, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 193 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1048 g

Reihe: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World

By employing the innovative lenses of ‘thing theory’ and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia’s things - from cultural objects to commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary things - in creating an Arabian identity over time. The Arabian identity that we convey here comprises both a fabulous Arabia that has haunted the European imagination for the past three hundred years and a real Arabia that has had its unique history, culture, and traditions outside the Orientalized narratives of the West. All Things Arabia aims to dispel existing stereotypes and to stimulate new thinking about an area whose patterns of trade and cosmopolitanism have pollinated the world with lasting myths, knowledge, and things of beauty.

Contributors include: Ileana Baird, Marie-Claire Bakker, Joseph Donica, Holly Edwards, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Victoria Hightower, Jennie MacDonald, Kara McKeown, Rana Al-Ogayyel, Ceyda Oskay, Chrysavgi Papagianni, James Redman, Eran Segal, Hülya Yagcioglu, and William Gerard Zimmerle.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baird, Ileana

Yagcioglu, Hülya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Complex Legacies: Materiality, Memory, and Myth in the Arabian Peninsula

Ileana Baird

PART I. Arabia of the Old: The Things of the Trade

Chapter 1. Frankincense and Its Arabian Burner

William Gerard Zimmerle

Chapter 2. The Tyranny of the Pearl: Desire, Oppression, and Nostalgia in the Lower Gulf

Victoria Hightower

Chapter 3. Palm Dates, Power, and Politics in Pre-Oil Kuwait

Eran Segal

PART II. Imagining Arabia: Exotic, Fabulous, and Misplaced Things

Chapter 4.Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination

Ileana Baird

Chapter 5. “Who Will Change Old Lamps for New Ones?”: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in British and American Children’s Entertainment

Jennie MacDonald

Chapter 6. Creative Cartography: From the Arabian Desert to the Garden of Allah

Holly Edwards

PART III. Emblems of Arabia: Things as Identity Markers

Chapter 7. Kinetic Symbol: Falconry as Image Vehicle in the United Arab Emirates

Yannis Hadjinicolaou

Chapter 8.Al-Sadu Weaving: Significance and Circulation in the Arabian Gulf

Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay

Chapter 9.Head Coverings, Arab Identity, and New Materialism

Joseph Donica

Part IV. Post-Oil Arabia: Things, Memory, and Local Identity

Chapter 10.Written in Silver: Protective Medallions from Inner Oman

James Redman

Chapter 11. From Cradle to Grave: A Life Story in Jewelry

Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown

Chapter 12. Cine-Things: The Revival of the Emirati Past in Nojoom Alghanem’s Cinemascape

Chrysavgi Papagianni

Afterword: All Things Collected

Hülya Yagcioglu

Über Autor(innen)

Ileana Baird, Ph.D. (2012), University of Virginia, is an Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University. She is the editor of Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2020), Eighteenth-Century Social Networks: Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteries (CSP, 2014), and (with Christina Ionescu) Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture (Ashgate, 2014; Routledge, 2018). She has authored articles on eighteenth-century visual and material culture and digital humanities.

Hülya Yagcioglu, Ph.D. (2015), Bogaziçi University, is an Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University. She is the author of articles on comparative literature and material culture, including, more recently, “Reifying Innocence: Material Contexts of Love in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence” (Routledge, 2017) and “Bridging the Gap between People and Things: The Politics and Poetics of Collecting in Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence” (Ibidem Verlag, 2017).

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