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In the time of oil : piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town / Mandana E. Limbert.

By: Limbert, Mandana EMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010. Description: xv, 244 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN: 9780804756273; 0804756279Subject(s): Collective memory -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ | Islam -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ | Social change -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ | Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ | Bahlāʼ (Oman) -- Social life and customsLOC classification: DS247.4.B32 | L46 2010
Contents:
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Exhibition: Crude | Gulf Studies | Exhibition: Crude | Gulf Studies
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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