In the time of oil
Subtitle: piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town
By: Mandana E. Limbert.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780804756266; 9780804756273
Subjects: Collective memory -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ; Islam -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ; Social change -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ; Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Oman -- Bahlāʼ; Bahlāʼ (Oman) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the dreamtime of oil : wealth and development in an anomalous time; title: Now, the police only drive : remembering rule and disorder in Bahla; title: In the eye of the neighbor, there is fire : hazards and histories of sociality; title: Circles of knowledge : religious learning, pious pasts, and alternative sociality; title: Senses of water : nostalgia, private ownership, and bodily privacy; title: Becoming Bahlawi : race, genealogy, and the politics of Arabness; title: Perhaps he has a son : succession, depletion, and the uncertain future.