Nathalie Peutz 
Islands of Heritage [PDF ebook] 
Conservation and Transformation in Yemen

Soporte

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen’s Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is home not only to birds, reptiles, and plants found nowhere else on earth, but also to a rich cultural history and the endangered Soqotri language. Within the span of a decade, this Indian Ocean archipelago went from being among the most marginalized regions of Yemen to promoted for its outstanding global value. Islands of Heritage shares Soqotrans’ stories to offer the first exploration of environmental conservation, heritage production, and development in an Arab state.


Examining the multiple notions of heritage in play for twenty-first-century Soqotra, Nathalie Peutz narrates how everyday Soqotrans came to assemble, defend, and mobilize their cultural and linguistic heritage. These efforts, which diverged from outsiders’ focus on the island’s natural heritage, ultimately added to Soqotrans’ calls for political and cultural change during the Yemeni Revolution. Islands of Heritage shows that far from being merely a conservative endeavor, the protection of heritage can have profoundly transformative, even revolutionary effects. Grassroots claims to heritage can be a potent form of political engagement with the most imminent concerns of the present: human rights, globalization, democracy, and sustainability.

€30.99
Métodos de pago

Tabla de materias

Introduction

1. Hospitality in Unsettling Times

2. Hungering for the State

3. When the Environment Arrived

4. Arrested Development

5. Reorienting Heritage

6. Heritage in the Time of Revolution

Conclusion

Sobre el autor

Nathalie Peutz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University Abu Dhabi.
¡Compre este libro electrónico y obtenga 1 más GRATIS!
Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 368 ● ISBN 9781503607156 ● Tamaño de archivo 12.2 MB ● Editorial Stanford University Press ● Publicado 2018 ● Edición 1 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 6663461 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
Requiere lector de ebook con capacidad DRM

Más ebooks del mismo autor / Editor

146.091 Ebooks en esta categoría