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A new old Damascus : authenticity and distinction in urban Syria
[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, and create them. --
Andrew Shryock In contemporary urban Syria, debates about the
representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have
become part of status competition and identity construction among the city's elite.
In theme restaurants and nightclubs that play on images of Syrian tradition, in
television programs, nostalgic literature, and visual art, and in the rhetoric of
historic preservation groups, the idea of the Old City has become a commodity for
the consumption of tourists and, most important, of new and old segments of the
Syrian upper class. In this lively ethnographic study, Christa Salamandra argues
that in deploying and debating such representations, Syrians dispute the past and
criticize the present. Indiana Series in Middle East Studies --
Mark Tessler, general editor
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