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portada Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
Type
Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Weight
0.59 kg.
ISBN13
9781501758614
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Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern

Amal Sachedina (Author) · Cornell University Press · Hardcover

Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern - Sachedina, Amal

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Synopsis "Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern"

Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913-1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Oman--such as old mosques and shari'a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee pot or the dagger (khanjar), and archaeological sites--have saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past. Oman's expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals, shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized narrative. But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern demonstrates there are consequences to this celebration of heritage. As the national narrative conditions the way people ethically work on themselves through evoking forms of heritage, it also generates anxieties and emotional sensibilities that seek to address the erasures and occlusions of the past.

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