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Filled with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done.... Written with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them. In contemporary urban Syria, debates about the representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have become part of status competition and identity construction among the city's elite. In theme restaurants and nightclubs that play on images of Syrian tradition, in television programs, nostalgic literature, and visual art, and in the rhetoric of historic preservation groups, the idea of the Old City has become a commodity for the consumption of tourists and, most important, of new and old segments of the Syrian upper class. In this lively ethnographic study, Christa Salamandra argues that in deploying and debating such representations, Syrians dispute the past and criticize the present.

Ethnology --- Social structure --- Group identity --- Damascus (Syria) --- Damas (Syrie) --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Ethnologie --- Sociologie urbaine --- Identité culturelle --- Damas --- Syrie

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Cities and towns, Ancient --- Greeks --- Villes antiques --- Grecs --- History --- Histoire --- Antiochus --- Syria --- Syrie

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Tunisie --- Turquie --- Asie occidentale --- Afrique du Nord --- Israël --- Irak --- Iran --- Maroc --- syrie

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Bāniyās (Damascus, Syria) --- Bāniyās (Damascus, Syria) --- Bāniyās (Damas, Syrie) --- Bāniyās (Damas, Syrie) --- History --- Antiquities --- Histoire --- Antiquités

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Coins, Roman --- Coinage --- Circular velocity of money --- Monnaies romaines --- Monnaie --- Catalogs. --- History --- Catalogues --- Frappe --- Histoire --- Syria --- Syrie --- Sources --- Coins, Roman - Syria - Catalogs.