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Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
Cultivating the Past, Living the
Modern explores how and why heritage has
emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of
Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past
that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a
Imamate (1913-1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards.
Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the
Sultanate of Oman-such as old mosques and shari'a
manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee
pot or the dagger ( khanjar ), and archaeological sites-have
saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part
of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past.
Oman's expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in
museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals,
shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized
narrative.
But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
demonstrates there are consequences to this celebration of
heritage. As the national narrative conditions the way people
ethically work on themselves through evoking forms of heritage, it
also generates anxieties and emotional sensibilities that seek to
address the erasures and occlusions of the past.
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In the time of oil : piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town
Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation following the discovery of oil, and how they now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion.
Focusing on shifting structures of governance and new forms of sociality as well as on the changes brought by mass schooling, piped water, and the fracturing of close ties with East Africa, Mandana Limbert shows how personal memories and local histories produce divergent notions about proper social conduct, piety, and gendered religiosity. With close attention to the subtleties of everyday life and the details of archival documents, poetry, and local histories, Limbert provides a rich historical ethnography of oil development, piety, and social life on the Arabian Peninsula.
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Historical Muscat
An examination of the historical environment of Muscat, the capital of Oman, and the damage sustained by the city's historical legacy since 1970. It includes a historical gazetteer of Muscat and its environs and numerous maps and photographs.
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The Early Iron Age Metal Hoard from the Al Khawd Area (Sultan Qaboos University), Sultanate of Oman
Numerous metallic artefacts, which anciently were deposited in a hoard, came to light per chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Khawd, Sultanate of Oman. Mostly fashioned from copper, these arrowheads, axes/adzes, bangles, daggers, knives, socketed lance/ spearheads, metal vessels, razors, rings, swords, and tweezers compare well with numerous documented artefact classes from south-eastern Arabia assigned to the Early Iron Age (1200–300 BCE). Discussion of the international trade between ancient Makan, Dilmun, and Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE dominates the archaeological literature about Arabia archaeology. The Al Khawd hoard and its contemporaries lend weight to the suggestion that 1st millennium BCE Qadē (the name of south-eastern Arabia at that time) was even more important than Bronze Age Makan in terms of the copper trade volume. A reassessment shows the Early Iron Age by no means to be a dark age, but rather an innovative, successful adaptive period characterised by evident population growth.
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Qalhat, a Medieval Port City of Oman
Although it is one of the main archaeological sites in Oman, the
medieval port of Qalhat, near Sur in Ash-Sharqiyah Governorate, has
long remained poorly documented. The extensive research initiated
in 2008 by the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism (at the time,
Heritage and Culture) shed striking light on the history of this
famous harbour city, which was the twin capital of the Kingdom of
Hormuz from the 13th to the 16th century. Surface surveys and
excavations have revealed the plan and chronology of the city and
its different districts. Mosques (including the Great Mosque built
by Bibi Maryam around 1300) and other religious buildings,
fortifications, and water supply systems have been identified and
studied. The craft and economic activities of the city and the
regional and international commercial links of the port have been
reconstructed, as well as the daily life of its inhabitants,
revealing the wealth and cosmopolitan character of this ancient
Omani metropolis. All these results highlighted the Outstanding
Universal Value of the site and eventually led to the inscription
of Qalhat on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2018.
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