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By Karen Exell
Historical past tasks within the Arabian Peninsula are constructing quickly. Museums and historical past websites are symbols of transferring nationwide identities, and a manner of putting the Arabian Peninsula states at the overseas map. worldwide, i.e. Western, history criteria and practices were utilised for the speedy injection of history services in museum improvement and location administration and for overseas popularity. using Western background types within the Arabian Peninsula conjures up key components for examine which this publication examines: the obscuring of indigenous ideas and practices of background and expressions of cultural identification; and the tensions among local/community ideas of history and identification and the recent nationwide identities being built via museums and background websites at a kingdom point.
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Time’s wheel runs back’: Conversations with the Middle Eastern past. In Cosmopolitan Archaeologies, ed. Lynn Meskell, pp. 166–83. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Smith, Laurajane. 2006. Uses of Heritage. London: Routledge. Steele, Caroline. 2005. Who has not eaten cherries with the devil? Archaeology under challenge. In Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives, ed. Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck, pp. 45–65. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. Tonkin, Boyd. 2013. Birth of a museum.
1 For example, Saudi Aramco’s Manifa Offshore Oilfield is constructed on 41 km of causeways built into shallow water habitats. Concern Amid the Oysters as Pearling is Honoured 35 Pearls Eclipse Oil and Gas The context of pearls and oil in heritage practices discussed here is usefully illustrated by considering the strong dependence on extractive resource industries in the Gulf – formerly fishing and pearling, and then petroleum production. Before oil and gas production began in the Gulf, pearling was a central industry organised and practised on a large scale (Carter 2012).
Lynn Meskell, pp. 189–99. London and New York: Routledge. Quirke, Stephen. 2010. Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880–1924. London: Duckworth Egyptology. Scham, Sandra Arnold. 2009. ‘Time’s wheel runs back’: Conversations with the Middle Eastern past. In Cosmopolitan Archaeologies, ed. Lynn Meskell, pp. 166–83. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Smith, Laurajane. 2006. Uses of Heritage. London: Routledge. Steele, Caroline. 2005. Who has not eaten cherries with the devil?