Yemen: Bedouin “Abjection”: World Heritage, Worldliness, And Worthiness At The Margins Of Arabia

Yemen: Bedouin “Abjection”: World Heritage, Worldliness, And Worthiness At The Margins Of Arabia Nathalie Peutz, 2011   In Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, during the years immediately preceding and following its inscription in 2008 as a UNESCO World Heritage site—and at a time when “Bedouinness” in much of the Arab world had been or was being elevated to a marketable heritage—Soqotran pastoralists spoke frequently of being Bedouin as a form of categorical abjection. Examining the work of these...

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