...Mandana E. Limbert This article examines the ruins of the former structures of rule in a medium-sized town in the Sultanate of Oman. It explores how people in Bahla relate to and perceive the ruins of forts, walls, and neighborhoods that had helped maintain order in the previous era...

... of irrigation. American Anthropologist 89 (2): 326 -41. Mabry, Jonathan B. 1996 . The ethnology of local irrigation. In Canals and communities: Small-scale irrigation systems , edited by Jonathan B. Mabry. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Middle East Economic Digest, 1973 . Oman . 20 July...

... theory. Mandana E. Limbert is associate professor of anthropology at Queens Col- lege and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her book Of Ties and Time: Gender, Sociality, and Modernity in Oman is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. She is coediting a volume on resources and temporalities...

... by their attentiveness to particular locales as their sites of analy- sis: eastern Germany, Oman, Greece, India, New York City, and southern Brazil. Any complex consideration of globalization requires focusing on the specificity...

... history and present. Finally, Limbert’s work on the cultural politics of a small oasis town in the interior of Oman explores ways in which marginal urban pasts and presents are constructed in the everyday life of the people of Bahla. Situ...

... that transport them from their countries of origin (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines) to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bah-rain, or Oman, where they work under conditions of indebted servitude (in construction, waste management, etc.). They enter into a system of total vulnerability...

... ( 1967 ): 5 – 6 . Takriti Abdel Razzaq . Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman 1965–1976 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Wolfe Patrick . Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic...