Being Bedouin Around Petra - Life At a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

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?

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 den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

Being Bedouin Around Petra explores the relationships between the UNESCO protection conferred on Petra, Jordan, and the traditions and lives of the semi-nomadic Bedouin who inhabit the surrounding area.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mikkel Bille, Bille Mikkel
• Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781789201208
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-120-8
• Seiten: 210
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; RELIGION / General, Jordan, Anthropology, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Museology and heritage studies