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Being Bedouin Around Petra

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Being Bedouin Around Petra

By Mikkel Bille

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9781789201208

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Being Bedouin Around Petra

Format

Hardcover

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