Limbert, Mandana E.

In the time of oil : piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town / Mandana E. Limbert. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010. - xv, 244 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the dreamtime of oil : wealth and development in an anomalous time -- Now, the police only drive : remembering rule and disorder in Bahla -- In the eye of the neighbor, there is fire : hazards and histories of sociality -- Circles of knowledge : religious learning, pious pasts, and alternative sociality -- Senses of water : nostalgia, private ownership, and bodily privacy -- Becoming Bahlawi : race, genealogy, and the politics of Arabness -- Perhaps he has a son : succession, depletion, and the uncertain future.

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Collective memory--Oman--Bahla.
Islam--Oman--Bahla.
Social change--Oman--Bahla.
Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects--Oman--Bahlåaʼ.
La memoria colectiva--Omán Bahla.
Islam--Omán--Bahla.
El cambio social--Omán Bahla.


Bahla (Oman)--Social life and customs.

439 DS 247.4 / L733t 2010

953.53