Tribal Modern Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf

Name: Tribal Modern Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
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ISBN: 9780520280106

ISBN-10: 0520280105

ISBN-13: 9780520280106

Edition: 2014

Authors: Miriam Cooke

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English