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Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan

Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5295

General Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0691194785
ISBN13: 9780691194783
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2019
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this provocative 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 pigeonholing that has distorted the reality of Jordanian national politics. In developing an alternate approach, she shows that the fluid social identities of Jordan emerge from an ongoing dialogue among tribespeople, members of the intelligentsia Hashemite rulers, and Western social scientists.

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