ABSTRACT For the past few decades a concern with heritage in the countries of the Arab Gulf has led to the reclamation of the purebred Arabian horse as one of the iconic animals of the Bedouin identity and to developing a thriving horse breeding industry in the region. While stud farms and equestrian sport events are intended to reinforce the Arabian identity of the breed, a closer look at its history demonstrate in fact the complexity of its identity. The complexity of cultural transfers with respect to horse breeding between the East and the West from the Early Modern period on, highlights the connected history of both the Arabian horses and the Thoroughbreds, and the ongoing cultural re-appropriation of both breeds as ‘native’ to the Arabian Peninsula.

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为马术运动分配和重新分配阿拉伯马：文化传播的复杂性

摘要在过去的几十年中，阿拉伯海湾国家对遗产的关注导致了作为阿拉伯贝都因人身份标志性动物之一的纯种阿拉伯马的开垦，并发展了该地区蓬勃发展的马匹繁殖业。尽管种马场和马术运动旨在增强该品种的阿拉伯身份，但仔细观察其历史实际上表明了其身份的复杂性。从近代早期开始，东西方之间关于马匹繁殖的文化传播的复杂性凸显了阿拉伯马匹和纯种马之间的联系历史，以及两种马匹作为“本地人”的持续文化重新使用到阿拉伯半岛。