In the Time of Oil Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town

Name: In the Time of Oil Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
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ISBN: 9780804756273

ISBN-10: 0804756279

ISBN-13: 9780804756273

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mandana Limbert

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Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure.In the Time of Oildescribes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation following the discovery of oil, and how they now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion. Focusing on shifting structures of governance and new forms of sociality as well as on the changes brought by mass schooling, piped water, and the fracturing of close ties with East Africa,…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 6/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Notes on Names and Transliteration



In the Dreamtime of Oil: Wealth and Development in an Anomalous Time



Now, the Police Only Drive: Remembering Rule and Disorder in Bahla



In the Eye of the Neighbor, There is Fire: Hazards and Histories of Sociality



Circles of Knowledge: Religious Learning, Pious Pasts, and Alternative Sociality



Senses of Water: Nostalgia, Private Ownership, and Bodily Privacy



Becoming Bahlawi: Race, Genealogy, and the Politics of Arabness



Perhaps He Has a Son: Succession, Depletion, and the Uncertain Future


Notes


Bibliography


Index