Overview

Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farmland, and to all intents and purposes, the village occupants themselves, a system that in some cases remained in place up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In Oman, mud-brick oases were home to most of the rural population right up until Sultan Qaboos came to power in 1970, and required inhabitants of mud-brick houses to relocate into new concrete block buildings. Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East explores these everyday, rural communities in Iran and Oman in the 19th and 20th centuries, through a combination of building analysis, excavation, artefact analysis and ethnographic interviews. Drawing on the results of original field projects, the book considers new ways of exploring traditional lifeways, giving voice to hitherto largely ignored sections of the population, and offers new and different ways of thinking about how these people lived and what shaped their lives and the impact of major political and social changes on them. Place, memory and belonging are considered through the lens of material culture within these villages. The first of its kind, the book brings together methodologies, research questions, and themes that have never been used or addressed in the Middle East. Helping to establish historical archaeology in the Middle East and providing new ways in which the memorable, quotidian past can be exploited for its social and economic value in contemporary community and heritage developments, it is an ideal resource for students, scholars and practitioners of historical archaeology and heritage of and in the Middle East.

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Author:   Ruth Young (University of Leicester, Uk)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780367662318

ISBN 10:   0367662310
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Identification of Interviewees 1 Introduction The aims of this book Key concepts in this book: place, memory, belonging Heritage The case studies The Iran project: Landlord Villages of the Tehran Plain Landlord villages of Iran Post revolution villages The Oman project: Bat Oasis Heritage Project Oman villages of the interior Housing changes in Oman Conclusion 2 Recent histories of Iran and Oman An outline of recent Iranian History An outline of recent Omani history Nation building, heritage, and place Iran: nation building by the Pahlavis Oman: nation building by Sultan Qaboos Conclusion 3 An archaeology of place and memory Archaeology is a way of understanding how people make place The village plans Place and power Giving meaning to place Place and religion Public places Place and memory Post abandonment Landlord villages Bat Oasis Conclusion 4 Memory, place and belonging Place, archaeology and memory Place and belonging under attack Mudbrick and memory in Oman Mudbrick and memory in Iran Kazemabad and Hosseinabad Sanghar memories Gach Agach memories Discussion and conclusion 5 Heritage in the Middle East Heritage UNESCO World Heritage in relation to the Middle East Why is the Bat prehistoric archaeological landscape a WH site and not the Bat Oasis? Heritage in the Middle East National heritage in Oman National heritage in Iran Quotidian and fragmented heritage Conclusion 6 Historical archaeology and heritage in the Middle East Barriers to historical archaeologySo how should we go about setting up ‘good’ heritage and archaeology projects? Community involvement Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Ruth Young is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. She is interested in the historical archaeology and heritage of the Middle East and South Asia and has directed and co-directed excavations and fieldwork in Iran, Lebanon, Oman, and Pakistan. Her recent publications include Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (2017, Routledge), and The Archaeology of South Asia (2105).

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