Tribal modern : branding new nations in the Arab Gulf
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Tribal modern : branding new nations in the Arab Gulf
University of California Press, c2014
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Uneasy Cosmopolitanism a. A Millennial Crossroad b. Cities of Salt c. Contamination 2. Pure Blood and the New Nation a. The British b. Nationalizing Tribes c. Tribal Marriages d. DNA and Money 3. The Idea of the Tribe a. Invention of Tribes b. Tribal Classes 4. The Brand a. Invention of Traditions b. Thinking through the Barzakh 5. Building the Brand a. National Museums b. Vernacular Architecture c. Nationalizing Vernacular Architecture 6. Heritage Engineering a. Modernizing Differently b. Heritage Sports c. Pearl Diving d. Orientalist Art as Tribal History e. The Heart of Doha 7. Performing the Nation a. Tribal Dress in Gulf History b. The Million's Poet c. Neo-Bedouin Language 8. Gendering the Tribal Modern a. Uneasy Cosmopolitanism Again b. Pathologizing the Gender Barzakh c. Women Writing in the Barzakh d. The Terrible Cold Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography
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