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Author : Neil Richardson
Publisher : Omani Craft Heritage Documentation Project
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Craft Heritage of Oman written by Neil Richardson and published by Omani Craft Heritage Documentation Project. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781860631566
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Craft Heritage of Oman written by Neil Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an impressive presentation of the Omani craft, heritage, artifacts and traditions in a regional format that provides an invaluable reference to scholars and collectors. The quality of the photographic illustrations is outstanding. The book is encyclopedic and beautifully presented in two hardback volumes, with an attractive, sturdy slipcase.
Author : Neil Richardson
Publisher : Omani Craft Heritage Documentation Project
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Craft Heritage of Oman written by Neil Richardson and published by Omani Craft Heritage Documentation Project. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. M. Al Mamari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Omani Crafts as an Expression of Culture and Heritage written by B. M. Al Mamari and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Hawker
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1845641353
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Traditional Architecture of the Arabian Gulf written by R. Hawker and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the florescence of architecture in the Arabian Gulf after the expulsion of the Portuguese in the early 1600's. It demonstrates how the power vacuum created by the collapse of Portuguese control over the trade routes in the Indian Ocean encouraged a growth in fortified architecture, especially in Oman, that radiated out to the surrounding region and was then slowly replaced by new patterns in domestic and public architecture and town planning throughout the Gulf as the trade lines were secured and the individual countries took the first steps towards the formation of today's modern nation-states.The book documents the buildings and crafts of this era and analyses them within the framework of the political, economic, and social information available through primary sources from the period in a way that is both intelligent and accessible. It considers the settlements as part of a larger-connected network of cities, towns and villages and focuses both on how the buildings provided innovative solutions to the demanding climate and yet incorporated new decorative and functional ideas. Topics are extensively and richly illustrated with colored photographs of the buildings as they are now, black and white and color historic photographs from archival and museum collections, line drawings, and computer-generated reconstructions.The book is therefore attractive to a number of audiences, including those who live in or travel to the Gulf as well as people with an interest in Arab and Islamic design, culture and society, vernacular architecture, and post-colonial approaches to colonial history.
Author : Tony Walsh
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1784770205
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Oman written by Tony Walsh and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradt's is the most up-to-date and informative guide to Oman, the Arabian peninsula's most welcoming destination, fully revised and updated by an author who has been living in Oman and Arabia since 1986. Oman is finally reaping the economic benefit of its location between Europe, Africa and Asia with substantial investment in major shipping ports and significant expansion of the national airline with new routes to Western Europe and East Asia. Despite being at the crossroads of great trade routes and empires, Oman has remained an independent country through much of its long history, and today tourism and travel are a major focus for Oman's government. This new edition covers the recent substantial investment in new airport facilities and upmarket accommodation and also features the historic UNESCO towns of Samharam and Al Balid. If you want to live like a local, the guide also tells you how to slow cook the traditional spiced meat shuwa and how to be a perfect guest if invited into an Omani home. Oman is not merely a desert. While it has the classic sand seas - Wihibah Sands - home to the nomadic Bedouin and their camels, this sultanate also boasts lush monsoon-soaked valleys near Salalah, mountain villages surrounded by green terraced fields of fruit trees and rose bushes, and the reef-fringed Ad Dimaniyyat Islands. With such a varied wilderness there is huge scope for adventure. Oman is increasingly perceived as a high-end cultural destination. The new Opera House has opened, directly supported by the Sultan, with top-notch international performers like Placido Domingo. The guide includes advice on property buying, since Omani law changed to allow expatriates to buy, explaining the rules and regulations. There is also a detailed overview of language schools teaching Arabic, not found in other guides. With advice on cultural etiquette, basic Arabic phrases and political history - as well as full practical information on where to stay and eat, and what to see and do - this fully updated edition remains the essential guide for travellers looking to discover the real Oman.
Author : Diana Darke
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841621685
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Oman written by Diana Darke and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern coastal city of Muscat provides a gateway to scuba diving, dhow cruising and turtle watching, whilst the ancient inner regions provide ideal terrain to take a 4WD through wadis or desert. Some of the most luxurious hotels in the Middle East are in Oman, so this guide is suitable for up-market travellers and backpackers alike.
Author : Vincenzo Clarizia
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803270330
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Ancient Weapons of Oman. Volume 2: Firearms written by Vincenzo Clarizia and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed overview of the firearms used in Oman over the last four centuries. Portable firearms, rifles and cannons are all discussed in detail with supporting illustrations. The weapons described in this book are mostly from the National Museum Oman and Bait al Zubair Museum in Muscat.
Author : Linda Pappas Funsch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137502010
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Oman Reborn written by Linda Pappas Funsch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sultanate of Oman is one of the few "good news" stories to have emerged from the Middle East in recent memory. This book traces the narrative of a little-known and relatively stable Arab country whose history of independence, legacy of interaction with diverse cultures, and enlightened modern leadership have transformed it in less than fifty years from an isolated medieval-style potentate to a stable, dynamic, and largely optimistic country. At the heart of this fascinating story is Oman’s sultan, Qaboos bin Sa’id, friend to both East and West, whose unique leadership style has resulted in both domestic and foreign policy achievements during more than four decades in office. Exploring Oman from a historical perspective, Funsch examines how the country’s unique blend of tradition and modernization has enabled it to succeed while others in the region have failed. Accounts of the author’s own experiences with Oman’s transformation add rich layers of depth, texture, and personality to the narrative.
Author : Amal Sachedina
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501758624
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern written by Amal Sachedina and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913–1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Oman—such as old mosques and shari'a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee pot or the dagger (khanjar), and archaeological sites—have saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past. Oman's expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals, shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized narrative. But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern demonstrates there are consequences to this celebration of heritage. As the national narrative conditions the way people ethically work on themselves through evoking forms of heritage, it also generates anxieties and emotional sensibilities that seek to address the erasures and occlusions of the past.
Author : Olivia Cadaval
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496805992
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Curatorial Conversations written by Olivia Cadaval and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping its practices. Curatorial Conversations brings together for the first time in one volume the combined expertise of the Festival's curatorial staff—past and present—in examining the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s representation practices and their critical implications for issues of intangible cultural heritage policy, competing globalisms, cultural tourism, sustainable development and environment, and cultural pluralism and identity. In the volume, edited by the staff curators Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N’Diaye, contributors examine how Festival principles, philosophical underpinnings, and claims have evolved, and address broader debates on cultural representation from their own experience. This book represents the first concerted project by Smithsonian staff curators to examine systematically the Festival’s institutional values as they have evolved over time and to address broader debates on cultural representation based on their own experiences at the Festival.
Author : Peter Vine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780785570479
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Heritage of Oman written by Peter Vine and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Ochs, II
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781565546875
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Maverick Guide to Oman written by Peter J. Ochs, II and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the endorsement and assistance of the Omani government, the only guide to Oman has been thoroughly updated for the second edition. For naturalists, the rock formations, minerals, and fossils of Oman are textbook-quality, and the variety of flora and fauna is awe-inspiring. For adventurers, there is wadi bashing, hiking, camping, and rock climbing. The landscape ranges from desert to oasis to mountain to coast, and the Omani people are among the most hospitable in the world. This guide utilizes the familiar Maverick format to communicate everything a first-time traveler needs to know. The author lives in Oman and has made many of the treks he writes about. He gives insight into the customs, history, and culture of the country, as well as how to get along with the Omanis in the best possible fashion. Advice is given on everything from asking permission to take pictures, to what type of vehicle to drive in certain areas, to which forts are open to the public, to what kinds of clothes to wear.
Author : Vincenzo Clarizia
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803270314
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Ancient Weapons of Oman. Volume 1: Edged Weapons written by Vincenzo Clarizia and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omani men carried personal weapons until relatively recently. Swords and daggers were part of daily life attire and are still worn in social events. This book describes all the main types of Omani edged weapons, their origin, structure and accessories, with supporting illustrations and references to examples from museums and private collections.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Peterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472587626
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of the Gulf States written by John Peterson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 The Emergence of the Gulf States covers the history of the Gulf from the 18th century to the late 20th century. Employing a broad perspective, the volume brings together experts in the field to consider the region's political, economic and social development. The contributions address key themes including the impact of early history, religious movements, social structures, identity and language, imperialism, 20th-century economic transformation and relations with the wider Indian Ocean and Arab world. The work as a whole provides a new interpretive approach based on new research coupled with extensive reviews of the relevant literature. It offers a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the area and sets a new standard for the future scholarship and understanding of this vital region.
Author : Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520390830
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Tropical Turn written by Sureshkumar Muthukumaran and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking anthropogenic peregrinations of these familiar crops from their homelands in tropical and subtropical Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, showing the significant impact South Asia had on the ecologies, dietary habits, and cultural identities of peoples across the ancient world. In the process, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran offers a fresh narrative history of human connectivity across Afro-Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the late centuries BCE.
