This article describes the creation of the Bedoun Archive at the Australian Data Archive, managed by the Australian National University. The Bedoun are a Bedouin minority comprising stateless members of the main tribes of Kuwait. They have been subjected to “Othering” in scholarly literature, indicative of both Orientalism and neo-Orientalism, approaches that have contributed to their oppression by the state and omission from the official histories of Kuwait and the academic literature. The theory and methodology behind the creation of the Bedoun Archive, based on the principles of humanistic sociology and collaborative research with Indigenous Peoples, are discussed. The archive provides safe storage for data analysed in the project, which can be used by others in future. This article contributes to improving understanding of the impact of Orientalism and neo-Orientalism on perceptions of the people and history of the Middle East in general, and the Arabian Gulf and Kuwait in particular. It also contributes new knowledge regarding the complex situation currently faced by the Bedoun, the role of intellectuals in the Arab Spring social movement and subsequently, their contribution to developing formal systems of knowledge about their own culture.

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贝都因档案馆：为科威特北部部落贝都因人创建的公共档案馆

本文介绍了由澳大利亚国立大学管理的澳大利亚数据档案馆中贝多因档案馆的创建。贝多因人是一个贝多因少数民族，由科威特主要部落的无国籍成员组成。他们受到了“其他”待遇。在学术文献中，既表明了东方主义又反映了新东方主义，这些方法都对国家的压迫和对科威特官方历史和学术文献的遗漏做出了贡献。贝多因档案馆创建的理论和方法，基于讨论了人文社会学原理以及与土著人民的合作研究。存档为项目中分析的数据提供了安全的存储，以后可以供其他人使用。Â本文有助于增进对东方主义和新东方主义对整个中东人民尤其是阿拉伯湾和科威特人民和历史的影响的理解。它还为有关贝都因人当前面临的复杂局势，知识分子在阿拉伯之春社会运动中的作用以及随后的知识分子在发展有关其自身文化的正式知识体系方面的贡献提供了新知识。