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Author Kanna, Ahmed, author.

Title Beyond exception : new interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula / Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020

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Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction : ethnography from the exceptional to the everyday / Amélie Le Renard, Neha Vora, Ahmed Kanna -- Space, mobility, and shifting identities in the constitution of the "field"/ Neha Vora, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard -- How western residents in Riyadh and Dubai produce and challenge exceptionalism / Amélie Le Renard -- Anthropology and the educational encounter / Neha Vora -- Class struggle and deexceptionalizing the Gulf / Ahmed Kanna -- Conclusion : centering the Arabian Peninsula, decolonizing the academy / Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, Neha Vora
Summary "This book analyzes what the theory of exceptionalism in the Arabian Peninsula does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies that the authors study"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnology -- Persian Gulf Region
Exceptionalism -- Persian Gulf Region
Orientalism -- Persian Gulf Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Civilization
Ethnology
Exceptionalism
Orientalism
SUBJECT Persian Gulf Region -- Civilization -- 21st century
Subject Persian Gulf Region
Form Electronic book
Author Le Renard, Amélie, author.
Vora, Neha, 1974- author.
LC no. 2019042268
ISBN 1501750321
9781501750311
1501750313
9781501750328