Being Bedouin Around Petra

Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

von Mikkel Bille

210 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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?

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781800739147
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.08.2023
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books