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HOME AND HOMELAND
DIALOGICS OF TRIBAL AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN JORDAN |
| By: |
Linda L. Layne |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£35.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691094780 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691094786 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 March, 1994 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
This study of collective identity in Jordan challenges Western assumptions that all Arabs belong to easily recognizable social groups. It describes instead the fluid social identities of Jordanians, and the process of building identity and nationalism that conditions these people. |
| Synopsis: |
In this examination of collective identity in Jordan, Linda Layne challenges long-held Western assumptions that Arabs belong to easily recognizable corporate social groups. Who is a "true" Jordanian? Who is a "true" Bedouin? These questions, according to Layne, are examples of a kind of pigeon-holing that has distorted the reality of Jordanian national politics. In developing an alternate approach, she shows that the fluid social identities of Jordanians emerge from a dialogue among tribespeople, members of the intelligentsia, Hashemite rulers, and Western social scientists. Many commentators on social identity in the Middle East limit their studies to the village level, but Layne's goal is to discover how the identity-building processes of the locality and of the nation condition each other. She finds that the tribes create their own cultural "homes" through a dialogue with official nationalist rhetoric and Jordanian urbanites, while King Hussein, in turn, maintains the idea of the "homeland" in ways that are powerfully influenced by the tribespeople.The identities so formed resemble the shifting, irregular shapes of postmodernist landscapes - but Hussein and the Jordanian people are also beginning to use a modernist linear narrative to describe themselves. Layne maintains, however, that even with this change Jordanian identities will remain resistant to all-or-nothing descriptions. |
| Illustrations: |
Ill. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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