Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan by Andrew Shryock

Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan

Andrew Shryock

363 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle Eas...

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