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A New Old Damascus |
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Author: Salamandra, Christa
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Adobe PDF
Content Language: English
ISBN: 9780253110411
Print ISBN: 9780253217226
Size: 62,841 KB
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
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Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural
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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.
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