20th century history
20th century world history
A01=Miriam Cooke
anthropology
arab gulf
Author_Miriam Cooke
bahrain
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discovery of oil
elitism
emirati dress codes
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gender
gender and race
gender studies
gulf citizenship
gulf identity
heritage
historical
history
international relations
kuwait
middle east
middle eastern history
modernized world
national identity
natural resources
neo bedouin poetry
neo tribal sports
oil
political
power
qatar
racism
racist
society
tribal rulers
uae
united arab emirates
wealth and power
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- ISBN 9780520280106
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Modern explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding new nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity - an image used for projecting prestige at home and power abroad.
miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University and author of several books, most recently Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (Duke, 2007) and Nazira Zeineddine: Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer (Oneworld, 2010).
