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Beyond exception : new interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula
- Title
- Beyond exception : new interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula / Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora.
- Author
- Kanna, Ahmed
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- vi, 153 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book analyzes what the theory of exceptionalism in the Arabian Peninsula does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies that the authors study"--
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Ethnology > Persian Gulf Region
- Exceptionalism > Persian Gulf Region
- Orientalism > Persian Gulf Region
- Civilization
- Ethnology
- Exceptionalism
- Orientalism
- Exceptionnalisme > Persique, Golfe (région)
- Orientalisme > Persique, Golfe (région)
- Persian Gulf Region > Civilization > 21st century
- Persian Gulf Region
- Pays du golfe Persique
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : ethnography from the exceptional to the everyday / Amélie Le Renard, Neha Vora, Ahmed Kanna -- Space, mobility, and shifting identities in the constitution of the "field"/ Neha Vora, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard -- How western residents in Riyadh and Dubai produce and challenge exceptionalism / Amélie Le Renard -- Anthropology and the educational encounter / Neha Vora -- Class struggle and deexceptionalizing the Gulf / Ahmed Kanna -- Conclusion : centering the Arabian Peninsula, decolonizing the academy / Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, Neha Vora.
- ISBN
- 9781501750298
- 1501750291
- 9781501750304
- 1501750305
- 9781501750311 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501750328 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019042267
- OCLC
- on1120907999
- SCSB-14078627
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library