Neighborhood and Boulevard - Reading through the Modern Arab City - K. Ziadeh - Hardback Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - 2011 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Description

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.