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Author : Royal Scottish Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Evolving Culture of Kuwait written by Royal Scottish Museum and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mohammed Alajmi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781109418880
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (188 download)
Download or read book History of Architecture in Kuwait written by Mohammed Alajmi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This research examines the evolution of Kuwait's architecture since its creation in the eighteenth century up to the discovery of oil in 1936. Using a chronological approach, this study discusses the spatial architectural and urban strategies, building materials and construction techniques, and styles over time. Chapters of this study examine how Kuwaiti architectural meanings changed in response to different social and cultural factors. This historical study intends to fill the gap that exists in the documentation of Kuwait's history as it relates to architecture and urbanization prior to the discovery of oil. The existing literature on the subject of traditional architecture of Kuwait is fragmented and incomplete. While some studies focus on stylistic and technological accounts, existing literature is unsupported by sufficient data and conducted with little or no in depth examination of the relationship between built form and socio-cultural developments. This study clarified the complex and multi-faceted relationship between Kuwait's built forms on the one hand, and its socio-cultural forces on the other. Besides giving an extensive description of Kuwaiti architecture, this study investigated the mechanisms that produced a specific and distinctive architecture in Old Kuwait."--P. [iii].
Author : Mahjoob Zweiri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040029523
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Making of Contemporary Kuwait written by Mahjoob Zweiri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contemporary history, governance, foreign policy, political economy, culture, and society of Kuwait. It highlights the dynamics of the country, putting forward both an overview of each subject covered and new research findings. It begins by providing a historical understanding of state formation and goes on to examine state structure, including the ruling monarchy, state legitimacy, and the creation of the Constitution and the National Assembly. It considers foreign policy, including the tools of diplomacy, the state’s regional and international approach, and the factors that have formed and reformed Kuwait’s strategic policy in the global arena. It assesses the economy, including rentierism, the labour market both for locals and for migrants, the class system, and the process of Kuwaitization; and it discusses Kuwaiti society and national identity, as well as investigates issues of women, civil society, youth, and the Bidoon minority. Overall, the book provides a full and detailed analysis of contemporary Kuwait and of the factors which are bringing about new developments.
Author : Laura Hindelang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110714736
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Iridescent Kuwait written by Laura Hindelang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Erdöl-Moderne ist ein lokales Phänomen der Geschichte Kuwaits, aber auch ein globales Ereignis und massgebliche Ursache des Klimawandels. Die Studie untersucht die Rolle von Erdöl in der visuellen Kultur Kuwaits im Kontext von Ideologien wie Modernisierung und politischer Repräsentation. Der Begriff des Irisierenden, eines in Regenbogenfarben schillernden Farbenspiels, dient als analytisch-ästhetisches Konzept, um den umstrittenen Beitrag von Erdöl in der Moderne zu diskutieren: sowohl Wohlstandsversprechen wie auch destruktive Kraft in soziokultureller und ökologischer Hinsicht. Das Buch versammelt eine Fülle historischen Bildmaterials, darunter Luft- und Farbfotografien, Briefmarken, Stadtpläne und Architekturdarstellungen, um unter Berücksichtigung von zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Golfregion das visuelle Erbe der Erdöl- Moderne kritisch zu hinterfragen.
Author : Rebecca L. Torstrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Culture and Customs of the Arab Gulf States written by Rebecca L. Torstrick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Names such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi have been emerging in the world's eye over the past decade as exotic hotspots, wealthy from oil production and advanced in the means of technology. However, at the same time, the Arab Gulf States have managed to maintain their traditional culture, adapting it to modern life. With complete coverage on Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, Culture and Customs of the Arab Gulf States is a must-have for every high school and public library shelf. Clear and vivid descriptions of contemporary life in the Arab Gulf help students discover how traditions of the past have evolved into customs today. This exhaustive volume covers topics such as religion, festivals, cuisine, fashion, family life, literature, the media, and music, among many others. Up-to-date and comprehensive, this volume offers a unique and contemporary depiction of culture in some of the world's wealthiest, up-and-coming nations.
Author : Altaf Salimal Ali Sabah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789990660418
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Kuwait Traditions written by Altaf Salimal Ali Sabah and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Casella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306486954
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities written by Eleanor Casella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As people move through life, they continually shift affiliation from one position to another, dependent on the wider contexts of their interactions. Different forms of material culture may be employed as affiliations shift, and the connotations of any given set of artifacts may change. In this volume the authors explore these overlapping spheres of social affiliation. Social actors belong to multiple identity groups at any moment in their life. It is possible to deploy one or many potential labels in describing the identities of such an actor. Two main axes exist upon which we can plot experiences of social belonging – the synchronic and the diachronic. Identities can be understood as multiple during one moment (or the extended moment of brief interaction), over the span of a lifetime, or over a specific historical trajectory. From the Introduction The international contributions each illuminate how the various identifiers of race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, class, gender, personhood, health, and/or religion are part of both material expressions of social affiliations, and transient experiences of identity. The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification will be of great interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, curators and other social scientists interested in the mutability of identification through material remains.
Author : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317007999
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Transcultural Architecture written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter. One of the benefits that this change of perspective brings about is that a large part of the political agenda of Critical Regionalism, which consists of resisting attitudes forged by typically Western experiences, is 'softened' and negotiated according to premises provided by local circumstances. A further benefit is that several responses dependent on factors that initial definitions of Critical Regionalism never took into account can now be considered. At the book’s centre is an analysis of Reima and Raili Pietilä’s Sief Palace Area project in Kuwait. Further cases of modern architecture in China, Korea, and Saudi Arabia show that the critique, which holds that Critical Regionalism is a typical 'western' exercise, is not sound in all circumstances. The book argues that there are different Critical Regionalisms and not all of them impose Western paradigms on non-Western cultures. Non-Western regionalists can also successfully participate in the Western enlightened discourse, even when they do not directly and consciously act against Western models. Furthermore, the book proposes that a certain 'architectural rationality' can be contained in architecture itself - not imposed by outside parameters like aesthetics, comfort, or even tradition, but flowing out of a social game of which architecture is a part. The key concept is that of the 'form of life', as developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose thoughts are here linked to Critical Regionalism. Kenneth Frampton argues that Critical Regionalism offers something well beyond comfort and accommodation. What he has in mind are ethical prescripts closely linked to a
Author : Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134128215
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Evolving Arab City written by Yasser Elsheshtawy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection€reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order.
Author : Paolo Petrocelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527539784
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Opera Theatre in the Middle East and North Africa written by Paolo Petrocelli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first structured and complete research work undertaken on opera theatres across the entire Middle East and North Africa. Until now, no single study has looked at every theatrical and musical institute in these countries. Many of the opera theatres that are examined here have had very little written about them at all. This work fills this void in order to provide scholars and practitioners in the sector with the first reference work on the subject that will help our understanding of the evolutionary process that has led—and continues to lead—all the countries in the MENA region to equip themselves with an opera theatre.
Author : Shirin Akiner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113615034X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Cultural Change & Continuity In Central Asia written by Shirin Akiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991. Central Asia is a vast sprawling territory with no precise boundaries, no precise geographic definition. There is much detailed, closely focused research that remains to be done on every part of Central Asia. Sometimes, however, it is illuminating to stand back and look at the region as a whole, seeking similarities as well as contrasts. This volume is a collection of papers from a conference on Tradition and Change in Central Asia was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in April 1987.
Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134120508
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Identities written by Timothy Insoll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of Identities brings together seventeen seminal articles from this exciting new discipline in one indispensable volume for the first time. Editor Timothy Insoll expertly selects a cross-section of contributions by leading authorities to form a comprehensive and balanced representation of approaches and interests. Issues covered include: gender and sexuality ethnicity, nationalism and caste age ideology disability. Chapters are thematically arranged and are contextualized with lucid summaries and an introductory chapter, providing an accessible introduction to the varied selection of case studies included and archaeological materials considered from global sources. The study of identity is increasingly recognized as a fundamental division of archaeological enquiry, and has recently become the focus of a variety of new and challenging developments. As such, this volume will fast become the definitive sourcebook in archaeology of identities, making it essential reading for students, lecturers and researchers in the field.
Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136774971
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Land Of Enki In The Islamic written by Timothy Insoll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. This study results from an intensive years fieldwork completed in Bahrain in 2001. This comprised two seasons of both excavations and surveys (February-May and September-November), separated by the Bahraini summer when it was deemed too hot to work effectively in the field.
Author : Kapila D. Silva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003856527
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Theorizing Built Form and Culture written by Kapila D. Silva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport – a felicitation volume to celebrate the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship – scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced understanding of mutual relationships between people and built environments across cultures. Professor Amos Rapoport has espoused an intellectual and theoretical legacy on environmental design scholarship that explains how cultural factors play a significant role in the ways people create and use environments as well as the way environments, in turn, influence people’s behavior. This volume presents a hitherto-not-seen, unique, and singular work that simultaneously articulates a cohesive framework of Rapoport’s architectural theories and demonstrates how that theoretical approach be used in architectural inquiry, education, and practice across environmental scales, types, and cultural contexts. It also acknowledges, for the very first time, how this theoretical legacy has pioneered the decolonizing of the Eurocentric approaches to architectural inquiry and has thus privileged an inclusive, cross-cultural perspective that laid the groundwork to understand and analyze non-Western design traditions. The book thus reflects a wide range of cross-cultural and cross-contextual range to which Professor Rapoport’s theories apply, a general notion of theoretical validity he always advocated for in his own writings. The volume is a paramount source for scholars and students of architecture who are interested in understanding how culture mediates the creation, use, and preservation of the built environment.
Author : Ben Farmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134983816
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought written by Ben Farmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture has attracted increasing worldwide attention in recent years, not only because of its cultural significance but also because of concern over the performance and resource implications of buildings. 101 in-depth articles by international scholars and practitioners bring the subject into focus by examining issues from various viewpoints. Please contact your representative for a leaflet detailing full contents and contributors. It also includes sample pages and several illustrations from the book.
Author : International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415031639
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Ibss: Anthropology: 1986 written by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.
Author : Yogesh K. Dwivedi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319750135
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Emerging Markets from a Multidisciplinary Perspective written by Yogesh K. Dwivedi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines prominent issues in the Emerging Markets (EM) from a variety of disciplines in order to make useful societal contributions through knowledge exchange. EMs offer enormous opportunities, but realizing them is both challenging and risky due to inherent uncertainties of such markets. EM’s also have unique characteristics that makes them different from developed countries. This causes implications for both theory and practice. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. This book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, and identifies new theoretical constructs, hypotheses (re)development, and emphasizes institutional contexts. The chapters in this book establish new conceptual and theoretical paradigms from multidisciplinary perspectives concentrated in the areas of information systems, electronic government, and digital and social media matters. The book focuses on topics in these areas such as digital enterprises, sustainability, telemedicine, and Information Communication Technology (ICT) and surveys the potential challenges and opportunities that may arise. These concepts and topics covered in this book are vital for making the global economy more equitable and sustainable.
