Nationalism and the genealogical imagination : oral history and textual authority in tribal Jordan /
In Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination, Andrew Shryock examines how Bedouin are making the transition from oral to written history. As Bedouin historians lead him through a world of hidden documents, contested photographs, meticulously reconstructed pedigrees, and jealously guarded talk, Sh...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1997
Berkeley : [1997], ©1997 Berkeley : c1997 Berkeley : 1997 |
| Series: | Comparative studies on Muslim societies ;
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Table of Contents:
- l. Writing Oral Histories
- 2. A City of Shadowy Outlines
- 3. Remembering the Sword and Lance
- 4. Documentation and the War of Words
- 5. Border Crossings
- 6. From Hearsay to Revelation
- 7. Publication and the Redistribution of Power
- 8. Popular Genealogical Nationalism
- Appendix A. Transliterations of 'Abbadi and 'Adwani Poems
- Appendix B. The Parliamentary Elections of 1989
- l Writing Oral Histories
- 2. A City of Shadowy Outlines
- 3. Remembering the Sword and Lance
- 4. Documentation and the War of Words
- 5. Border Crossings
- 6. From Hearsay to Revelation
- 7. Publication and the Redistribution of Power
- 8. Popular Genealogical Nationalism
- Appendix A. Transliterations of 'Abbadi and 'Adwani Poems
- Appendix B. The Parliamentary Elections of 1989.