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UNDISCOVERED ASIR
Thierry Mauger is the latest in a long and distinguished line of Western travellers in remote corners of the Arabian Peninsula. Throwing off the shackles of a career in science-related business, M. Mauger set off on adventurous expeditions, often alone, into the wild mountainous regions of Saudi Arabia’s Asir abutting the rugged border with Yemen, and to the precipitous slopes dropping to the Tihamah plains by the Red Sea. His remarkable photographs and vivid text tell of tribes and communities whose way of life has not changed for centuries. These tribesmen - some settled on intricately terraced farms, some on perilous cliffs and in villages in remote valleys, some depending on their herd...
Impressions of Arabia
With its awe-inspiring landmarks, its dense woodlands, and the delightful coolness of its mountain tops, the region of Asir stands in sharp contrast to the usual patterns of Saudi Arabian landscape. “This could have been the site of the Garden of Eden,” wrote St. John Philby in the 1930s, and as this extraordinary book of photographs demonstrates, the claim still holds true today. The story of the author’s two journeys around the Asir region is told through the architecture, frescoes and lifestyles of the people. Granted royal approval for his second project, Thierry Mauger has been able to gain access to previously unseen interiors and to win the trust of the people. In the process, h...
FLOWERED MEN AND GREEN SLOPES OF ARABIA
Over a period of eight years, the author traveled about half a million kilometers to witness first-hand, the living sources of an unexpectedly diverse and rich Arabia. Thierry Mauger, accompanied by his wife Danielle, has previously expressed his passion for Saudi Arabia (“In the shadow of the black tents” 1986, Tihama. “The Bedouins of Arabia” 1987, Souffles). In this book, he explores space and time in an adventure with the wonderful natural environment of southern Arabia and its people, heirs to this region’s great civilizations. His faithfully-recorded travel journal, together with the enchanting colours of his photographs, admirably portray a world on the verge of a radical tr...
THE BEDOUINS OF ARABIA
To what extent is our civilization likely to affect Arabia’s nomads, the Bedouins? How is it likely to alter their customs and their traditional way of life? To shed some light on the lifestyle, the dignity and the spirit of these desert people, the author and his wife Danielle, lead us - forty years after the famous explorer Wilfred Thesiger - on the edge of the mountains and the dunes of the Rub al-Khali, the largest sandy desert in the world. Unique photographs illustrate their seven-year-long adventure, sharing the everyday life of different tribes and their enduring friendships with these remarkable men, their womenfolk and children. In this account of their travels, the reader is giv...
The Israeli State and Society
This book provides a unique mosaic of the most recent processes and phenomena which explains Israel factually as well as theoretically. It offers a new conceptual framework for analysing the relationships between state and society, contrasting social boundaries with social frontiers. It also discusses the problems that arise when Zionist ideology confronts reality in contemporary Israel.
RIJAL AT THE STROKE OF A BRUSH
Sitting symbolically halfway between the coast of the Red Sea and the highlands of southwestern Saudi Arabia lies the Village of Rijal. Anthropologist Thierry Mauger has brought to light a shadow of the collective imagination of this village, exploring in all its splendor the exceptional mural art practiced by women. Painter Magali Jeantelot displayed her talent by resurrecting this art and sublimating it. The two strands, traditional and modern, look at each other, respond to each other and finally enshrine themselves in a single masterpiece: unity without uniformity. الأرض الأمطار الأمير البدو التقليدية الجبل الحيوانات الخيام الرجال...
The Art of Earth Architecture
For almost ten thousand years, unbaked earth has been used to build remarkable structures, from simple dwellings to palaces, temples, and fortresses both grand and durable. Jean Dethier spent fifty years researching this landmark global survey, which spans five continents and 250 sites. The Art of Earth Architecture demonstrates the wide-ranging applications and sustainability of this building material, while presenting a manifesto for its ecological significance. Featuring raw-earth masterpieces, monumental structures, and little known works, the book includes the temples and palaces of Mesopotamia, the Great Wall of China, large-scale urban developments in Tenochtitlan in Mexico, the medinas of Morocco, and housing in Marrakech and Bogota. This definitive reference features many UNESCO World Heritage sites and contains essays on the historical, technical, and cultural aspects of raw-earth construction from twenty experts in the field, as well as hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and architectural drawings.
Living Under the Crescent Moon
Overview of living styles in the Arabic world - from the nomads' tents of the Tuareg and the Bedouin via the Moroccan casbahs, magnificent court-yarded houses in cities like Marrakech, Damascus or Cairo through to 20th-century buildings by architects suchas Hassan Fathy or Elie Mouyal.
Bourdieu and Literature
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics, and sociology, but his longstanding interest in literature has often been overlooked. This study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu's intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy. This is the first full-length study of Bourdieu's work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology.
