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eBook
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
2021
Overview
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.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Arabization of Minorities in Oman
/ Heritage and Museums in Oman
/ HISTORY
/ History and Heritage in the Sultanate of Oman
/ Islam
/ Material culture-Political aspects-Oman
/ Nation-State Building in Oman
/ Oman
/ Post-colonial Legacy of Slavery in Oman
/ RELIGION
ISBN
9781501758638, 1501758632, 1501760025, 9781501760020
