Bedouin "abjection": World heritage, worldliness, and worthiness at the margins of Arabia
In Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, during the years immediately preceding and following its inscription in 2008 as a UNESCO World Heritage site—and at a time when "Bedouinness" in much of the Arab world had been or was being elevated to a marketable heritage—Soqotran pastoralists spoke f...
| Publié dans: | American Ethnologist. - Wiley Periodicals, Inc, 1974. - 38(2011), 2, Seite 338-360 |
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| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2011
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| Accès à la collection: | American Ethnologist |
| Sujets: | Culture Social sciences Business Physical sciences Arts |
| Résumé: | In Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, during the years immediately preceding and following its inscription in 2008 as a UNESCO World Heritage site—and at a time when "Bedouinness" in much of the Arab world had been or was being elevated to a marketable heritage—Soqotran pastoralists spoke frequently of being Bedouin as a form of categorical abjection. Examining the work of these iterations, I argue that "Bedouin abjection" is a form of dialogic critique of the "global hierarchy of value" and an ironic assessment of the Soqotran pastoral present. I further assert that anthropologists must be attentive to the universal resonances of these abject articulations. |
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| ISSN: | 15481425 |