Neighborhood and Boulevard [electronic resource] : Reading through the Modern Arab City /
Ziadeh, K.author.
Selim, Samah.
Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity.
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Preface -- The public plaza -- The Ottoman café -- The seaport -- The Christian quarter -- The French district -- The hill and the plain -- The market -- The boulevards.
Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity.
Cultural studies.
Middle Eastern literature.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Social history.
Cultural Studies.
Middle Eastern Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology of Culture.
Social History.