Being Bedouin Around Petra: Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

By Mikkel Bille

Book Overview

Takes an ethnographic approach to understanding everyday life of the Bedouin as heritage in contemporary Jordan. Exemplifies the materiality of heritage proclamations and religious transformations. Demonstrates the complex entanglements of Islamic revival, tourism, heritage management, and local interests in negotiating the past in the present. Underlines the importance of local communities, civil society actors, tourism and academic networks and the emergence, rejection and acceptance of UNESCO world heritage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800739141
• ISBN13: 9781800739147
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"