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基本説明
The authors assess how grand historical narratives such as those produced by states and colonial powers are currently challenged by multiple historical actors, a process which generates alternative narratives about identity, the state and society.
Full Description
Saudi Arabia and Yemen are two countries of crucial importance in the Middle East and yet our knowledge about them is highly limited, while typical ways of looking at the histories of these countries have impeded understanding. Counter-Narratives brings together a group of leading scholars of the Middle East using new theoretical and methodological approaches to cross-examine standard stories, whether as told by Westerners or by Saudis and Yemenis, and these are found wanting. The authors assess how grand historical narratives such as those produced by states and colonial powers are currently challenged by multiple historical actors, a process which generates alternative narratives about identity, the state and society.
Contents
Introduction; M.Al-Rasheed & R.Vitalis Arabian Peninsula Studies Arabia Incognito: An Invitation to Arabian Peninsula Studies; S.Carapico PART I: NEW HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND AGENDAS The Imama's vs. the Iqal: Hadari-Bedouin Conflict and the Formation of the Saudi State; A.H.Al-Fahad Material Conditions, Knowledge and Trade in Central Arabia During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Centuries; G.W.Steinberg Reframing Social History in the Middle East: The Case of Ottoman Yemen, 1914 - 1918; I.Blumi Recasting Tribe in South Yemen: Colonialization and the Moral Geography of the Imamate; J.M.Willis Aramco World: Business and Culture on the Arabian Oil Frontier; R.Vitalis PART II: CONTEMPORARY POLITICS AND SOCIETY The Capture of Riyadh Revisited: The Shaping of Historical Imagination in Saudi Arabia; M.Al-Rasheed Struggles Over History and Identity: 'Opening the Gates' of the Kingdom to Tourism; G.Okruhlik Evacuating Memory in Post-Revolutionary Yemen; G.Vom Bruck
