Author: Clifford Geertz
Publisher: HAU Books
ISBN: 1912808986
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print. Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz’s essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and religious lives in the bustle of transaction. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the Middle Atlas town of Sefrou, Geertz explores how actors from diverse backgrounds assess the worth and meaning of other people’s wares, words, and ways of doing business. He shows how the search for market information, so central to the theorization of markets by economists, is here based on careful appraisals of social relations, embedded in understandings of the broader institutional environment of the market town and its hinterlands. With a richness of insights procured for generations of readers, Geertz’s essay on the sūq is a model of and for the craft of ethnographic theory. Long out of print, it is republished here in a stand-alone edition introduced by Lawrence Rosen.
Suq
Author: Clifford Geertz
Publisher: HAU Books
ISBN: 1912808986
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print. Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz’s essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and religious lives in the bustle of transaction. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the Middle Atlas town of Sefrou, Geertz explores how actors from diverse backgrounds assess the worth and meaning of other people’s wares, words, and ways of doing business. He shows how the search for market information, so central to the theorization of markets by economists, is here based on careful appraisals of social relations, embedded in understandings of the broader institutional environment of the market town and its hinterlands. With a richness of insights procured for generations of readers, Geertz’s essay on the sūq is a model of and for the craft of ethnographic theory. Long out of print, it is republished here in a stand-alone edition introduced by Lawrence Rosen.
Publisher: HAU Books
ISBN: 1912808986
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print. Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz’s essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and religious lives in the bustle of transaction. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the Middle Atlas town of Sefrou, Geertz explores how actors from diverse backgrounds assess the worth and meaning of other people’s wares, words, and ways of doing business. He shows how the search for market information, so central to the theorization of markets by economists, is here based on careful appraisals of social relations, embedded in understandings of the broader institutional environment of the market town and its hinterlands. With a richness of insights procured for generations of readers, Geertz’s essay on the sūq is a model of and for the craft of ethnographic theory. Long out of print, it is republished here in a stand-alone edition introduced by Lawrence Rosen.
The Places Where Men Pray Together
Author: Paul Wheatley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226894282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
What makes a city an economic, political, and cultural center? In The Places Where Men Pray Together, Paul Wheatley draws on two decades of astonishingly wide-ranging research to demonstrate that Islamic cities are defined by function rather than form—by what they do rather than what they are. Focusing on the roles of cities during the first four centuries of Islamic expansion, Wheatley explores interconnected cultural, historical, economic, political, and religious factors to provide the clearest and most extensively documented portrait of early Islamic urban centers available to date. Building on the tenth-century geographer al-Maqdisi's writings on urban centers of the Islamic world, buttressed by extensive comparative material from roadbooks, topographies, histories, adab literatures, and gazetteers of the time, Wheatley identifies the main functions of different Islamic urban centers. Chapters on each of the thirteen centers that al-Maqdisi identified, ranging from the Atlantic to the Indus and from the Caspian to the Sudan, form the heart of this book. In each case Wheatley shows how specific agglomeration and accessibility factors combined to make every city functionally distinct as a creator of effective space. He also demonstrates that, far from revolutionizing every aspect of life in these cities, the adoption of Islam often affected the development of these cities less than previously existing local traditions. The Places Where Men Pray Together is a monumental work that will speak to scholars and readers across a broad variety of disciplines, from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to religious historians, archaeologists, and geographers.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226894282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
What makes a city an economic, political, and cultural center? In The Places Where Men Pray Together, Paul Wheatley draws on two decades of astonishingly wide-ranging research to demonstrate that Islamic cities are defined by function rather than form—by what they do rather than what they are. Focusing on the roles of cities during the first four centuries of Islamic expansion, Wheatley explores interconnected cultural, historical, economic, political, and religious factors to provide the clearest and most extensively documented portrait of early Islamic urban centers available to date. Building on the tenth-century geographer al-Maqdisi's writings on urban centers of the Islamic world, buttressed by extensive comparative material from roadbooks, topographies, histories, adab literatures, and gazetteers of the time, Wheatley identifies the main functions of different Islamic urban centers. Chapters on each of the thirteen centers that al-Maqdisi identified, ranging from the Atlantic to the Indus and from the Caspian to the Sudan, form the heart of this book. In each case Wheatley shows how specific agglomeration and accessibility factors combined to make every city functionally distinct as a creator of effective space. He also demonstrates that, far from revolutionizing every aspect of life in these cities, the adoption of Islam often affected the development of these cities less than previously existing local traditions. The Places Where Men Pray Together is a monumental work that will speak to scholars and readers across a broad variety of disciplines, from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to religious historians, archaeologists, and geographers.
Gazetteer - United States Board on Geographic Names
Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Arabian Peninsula; Official Standard Names Approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names
Author: United States. Office of Geography
Publisher: Washington
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher: Washington
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates
Author: Daniel T. Potts
Publisher: Trident Press Ltd
ISBN: 190072488X
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher: Trident Press Ltd
ISBN: 190072488X
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Arabian Peninsula
Author: United States. Office of Geography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Reuse of Tombs in Eastern Arabia
Author: Stephanie Döpper
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803274980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book investigate reuse of tombs in Eastern Arabia from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Sasanian period in order to understand the underlying purposes and social context of this practice.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803274980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book investigate reuse of tombs in Eastern Arabia from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Sasanian period in order to understand the underlying purposes and social context of this practice.
Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco
Author: Fatima Sadiqi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004128530
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This text is an original investigation in the complex relationship between women, gender, and language in a Muslim, multilingual, and multicultural setting. Moroccan women's use of monolingualism (oral literature) and multilingualism (code-switching) reflects their agency and gender-role subversion in a heavily patriarchal society.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004128530
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This text is an original investigation in the complex relationship between women, gender, and language in a Muslim, multilingual, and multicultural setting. Moroccan women's use of monolingualism (oral literature) and multilingualism (code-switching) reflects their agency and gender-role subversion in a heavily patriarchal society.
United Arab Emirates
Author: Ibrahim Abed
Publisher: Trident Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781900724470
Category : United Arab Emirates
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
An authoritative and wide-ranging book uncovering the rich heritage of the United Arab Emirates, its political renaissance and its modern transformation into one of the most developed nations in the world.
Publisher: Trident Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781900724470
Category : United Arab Emirates
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
An authoritative and wide-ranging book uncovering the rich heritage of the United Arab Emirates, its political renaissance and its modern transformation into one of the most developed nations in the world.
Saudi Arabia, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names
Author: United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Topographic Center
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description