TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salamandra,Christa
TI  - A new old Damascus: authenticity and distinction in urban Syria 
T2  - Indiana series in Middle East studies
SN  - 0253111218
AV  - GN635.S95 S35 2004eb
U1  - 305.8/0095691/44 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Syria
KW  - Damascus
KW  - Social structure
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Syrie
KW  - Damas
KW  - Structure sociale
KW  - Identité collective
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Altstadtsanierung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Gruppenidentität
KW  - Oberschicht
KW  - Sozialstruktur
KW  - Etnische betrekkingen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Identificatie (psychologie)
KW  - Damascus (Syria)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Damaskus
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - "[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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