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Author Limbert, Mandana E.

Title In the time of oil : piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town / Mandana E. Limbert.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 244 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents In the dreamtime of oil : wealth and development in an anomalous time -- Now, the police only drive : remembering rule and disorder in Bahla -- In the eye of the neighbor, there is fire : hazards and histories of sociality -- Circles of knowledge : religious learning, pious pasts, and alternative sociality -- Senses of water : nostalgia, private ownership, and bodily privacy -- Becoming Bahlawi : race, genealogy, and the politics of Arabness -- Perhaps he has a son : succession, depletion, and the uncertain future.
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Subject Bahlāʼ (Oman) -- Social life and customs.
Collective memory -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ.
Collective memory.
Oman -- Bahlāʼ.
Islam -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ.
Islam.
Social change -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ.
Social change.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Limbert, Mandana E. In the time of oil. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804756266 (DLC) 2010008176 (OCoLC)494691347
ISBN 9780804774604 (electronic book)
0804774609 (electronic book)
9780804756266 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804756273 (paperback ; alkaline paper)