In the time of oil : piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town / Mandana E. Limbert.
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TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010. Description: xv, 244 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN: 9780804756266 (cloth : alk. paper); 0804756260 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780804756273 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0804756279 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bahlāʼ (Oman) -- Social life and customs | Collective memory -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ | Islam -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ | Social change -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ | Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Oman -- BahlāʼLOC classification: DS247.4.B32 | L46 2010
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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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| DS247.2.M35 F83 2009 Histories of city and state in the Persian Gulf : | DS247.2.M35 K395 2019 لا أحد ينام في المنامة : | DS247.4.B32 L46 2010 In the time of oil : | DS247.4.B32 L46 2010 In the time of oil : | DS247.6.A96 D93 2000 The oasis : | DS247.6.A96 M39 2010z الموقع الإسلامي المبكر في مدينة العين. | DS247.6 D83 2014 Dubai how to guide. |
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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