Being Bedouin Around Petra Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

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Synopsis

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?

Book details

Author:
Mikkel Bille
ISBN:
9781789201208
Related ISBNs:
9781789201215
Publisher:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Pages:
210
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2023-06-30
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2019
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies