A new old Damascus : authenticity and distinction in urban Syria / Christa Salamandra.

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Salamandra, Christa

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0253111218
9780253111210
0253344670
9780253344670
0253217229
9780253217226
0253110416
9780253110411
1282072315
9781282072312

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: New old Damascus.DDC classification:

305.8/0095691/44 22

LOC classification:

GN635.S95 S35 2004eb

Other classification:

15.75
EH 5366

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Contents:

Introduction: A return to the old -- "His family had a house in Malki, so we thought he was all right" : socio-spatial distinction -- "That color looks great on you" : consumption, display, and gender -- Old Damascus commodified -- Ramadan lived and consumed -- Conservation, preservation, and celebration -- Conclusion: Weapons of the not-so-weak -- Epilogue: Of hubble bubbles and cell phones.

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Summary: "[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done ... [Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them."--Andrew ShryockIn contemporary urban Syri

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index.

"[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done ... [Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them."--Andrew ShryockIn contemporary urban Syri

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