Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan Volume 23

by Andrew Shryock

Book Overview

This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate historians lead him through a world of hidden documents, contested photographs, and meticulously reconstructed pedigrees, Andrew Shryock describes how he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520201019
• ISBN13: 9780520201019
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"