Reviving the Discredited: Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. . Andrew Shryock.

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Joseph Massad
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Textual Authority

ANDREW SHRYOCK, Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Society, Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 23 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997). Pp. 370.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-170
Author(s):  
PATRICK D. GAFFNEY
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Textual Authority ◽  
Tribal Society ◽  
Ubiquitous Media ◽  
Information Gaps

In an era of instantaneous communication and ubiquitous media the global public is regularly invited to witness history in the making, as the expression goes, through newspaper accounts and broadcasts of events marked with special significance. In the Middle East and elsewhere, history is said to record the fate of nations that at times is unfolding before our eyes and ears, with the accuracy of claims resting on evidence to be observed or recovered in period documents and artifacts. What emerges supposedly is a narrative whose eventual uncertainties can be attributed to information gaps, inadequate archives, and difficulties in identifying or authenticating sources.

scholarly journals Andrew Shryock: Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination. Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Chr. Korsholm Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Textual Authority

Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Anmeldes af Hans Chr. Korsholm Nielsen

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