| Description |
1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Indiana series in Middle East studies
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Indiana series in Middle East studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Syria -- Damascus.
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Ethnology. |
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Syria -- Damascus. |
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Social structure -- Syria -- Damascus.
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Social structure. |
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Group identity -- Syria -- Damascus.
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Group identity. |
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Damascus (Syria) -- Social life and customs.
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Damascus (Syria) -- Religious life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Salamandra, Christa. New old Damascus. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253344670 0253217229 (DLC) 2004009433 (OCoLC)55036793 |
| ISBN |
0253111218 (electronic book) |
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9780253111210 (electronic book) |
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0253344670 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253344670 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253217229 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253217226 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0253110416 |
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9780253110411 |
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