A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria

by Christa Salamandra

Book Overview

" F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done. . . . Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253217229
• ISBN13: 9780253217226
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher