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Author Kanna, Ahmed, author.

Title Beyond exception : new interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula / Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography 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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Ethnology -- Persian Gulf Region.
Ethnology.
Persian Gulf Region.
Exceptionalism -- Persian Gulf Region.
Exceptionalism.
Orientalism -- Persian Gulf Region.
Orientalism.
Persian Gulf Region -- Civilization -- 21st century.
Civilization.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Persian Gulf Region.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Le Renard, Amélie, author.
Vora, Neha, 1974- author.
Other Form: Print version: Kanna, Ahmed. Beyond exception Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020. 9781501750298 (DLC) 2019042267
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