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Subject(s)

• Material culture—Oman [Browse]
• Cultural property—Oman [Browse]
• Oman—History—20th century [Browse]
• Oman—History—21st century [Browse]
• Oman—Civilization—History [Browse]
• Oman—Politics and government—History [Browse]

Series

Cornell scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern' explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913-1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Oman - such as old mosques and shari'a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee pot or the dagger (khanjar), and archaeological sites - have saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2021.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Introduction: heritage discourse and its alterities
• Reform and revolt through the pen and the sword
• Nizwa Fort and the dalla during the Imamate
• Museum effects
• Ethics of history-making
• Nizwa, city of memories
• Nizwa's lasting legacy of slavery
• The al-Lawati as a historical category
• Conclusion: cultivating the past.

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ISBN

• 1-5017-5861-6
• 1-5017-5862-4

OCLC

• 1224043928
• 1269269000

Doi

• 10.1515/9781501758621

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