Abstract:

Since its inception as a nation-state in 1970, Oman’s expanding heritage industry—exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, cultural festivals, and the restoration of more than one hundred forts, castles, and citadels—fashions a distinctly national geography and a territorial imaginary. Material forms of old mosques, restored forts, museumified living settlements, and national symbols such as the coffee pot or dagger saturate the landscape and become increasingly ubiquitous as part of a public memorialization of the past. Material forms, and their circulation through institutional techniques of education and mass publicity, assume a repetitive aesthetic pedagogy that cultivates everyday civic virtues, new modes of religiosity and forms of marking time, defining the ethical actions necessary to become an Omani modern through the framework of tradition. Heritage is approached here not merely for its ability to instill ideologies, thus downgrading its truth to a function of state power and manipulation, but for its potential to shape the perceptual habits, emotional affects, and ethical sensibilities of its audience.

摘要：

自1970年成立为民族国家以来，阿曼不断发展的遗产产业-以博物馆，展览，文化节的兴起以及一百多个堡垒，城堡和城堡的复兴为例-形成了鲜明的民族地理和地理标志。地域虚构的。古老的清真寺，修复的堡垒，博物馆化的居住区以及咖啡壶或匕首之类的国家标志的物质形式使景观变得更加饱和，并且随着过去的公共纪念活动而日益普及。物质形式及其通过教育和大众宣传的体制技术的传播，采用了重复性的美学教学法，该方法培养了日常的公民美德，新的宗教信仰方式和打分时间的形式，通过传统框架定义成为阿曼现代人所必需的道德行为。在这里研究遗产不仅是因为它具有灌输意识形态的能力，从而将其真理降级为国家权力和操纵的功能，还在于它有可能塑造其听众的感知习惯，情感影响和道德感。