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Author Bille, Mikkel, author

Title Being Bedouin around Petra : life at a world heritage site in the twenty-first century / Mikkel Bille
Edition First edition
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2019

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Contents Introduction: in the presence of things -- Preserving heritage -- Marketing Bedouinity -- Taming heritage -- The shameful shaman -- Dealing with dead saints -- The allure of things -- Ambiguous materialities -- Conclusion
Summary Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?
Analysis Bedouin, World Heritage, Heritage Protection, Petra, Jordan, UNESCO
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bedouins -- Jordan -- Maʻān (Province) -- Social conditions
Bedouins -- Jordan -- Maʻān (Province) -- Ethnic identity
Heritage tourism -- Jordan -- Petra (Extinct city)
World Heritage areas -- Social aspects -- Jordan -- Petra (Extinct city)
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Heritage tourism
Bedouins -- Social conditions
Bedouins -- Social life and customs
World Heritage areas
Jordan
Jordan -- Petra (Extinct city)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019006470
ISBN 9781789201215
1789201217