{"title":"Ethics of History Making","authors":"Amal Sachedina","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the underlying reasoning behind the sheer ubiquity of heritage imagery and the social reality it creates. It interrogates the ways in which Omani state officials attempt to naturalize the productive possibilities of a living connection with heritage imagery through their mode of rationalizing the connection between past, present, and future, and how this temporal logic becomes the ground upon which ethical values, dispositions, and practices forge the basis of the idealized relationship between the Omani citizen and heritage imagery. Thanks to state initiatives, the pragmatics of daily activities among the citizenry are now enshrined as heritage, creating a sense of self-consciously repeating the habits and traditions of forbears. These activities slice through modern distinctions of public and private, state and society, acquiring a new significance as the basis for forging the “Omani personality.” These include daily household chores, such as serving coffee, sprinkling rose water over guests on leave taking, weekly burning of incense throughout the home, wearing the disdasha to the office, or making traditional bread for breakfast.","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter explores the underlying reasoning behind the sheer ubiquity of heritage imagery and the social reality it creates. It interrogates the ways in which Omani state officials attempt to naturalize the productive possibilities of a living connection with heritage imagery through their mode of rationalizing the connection between past, present, and future, and how this temporal logic becomes the ground upon which ethical values, dispositions, and practices forge the basis of the idealized relationship between the Omani citizen and heritage imagery. Thanks to state initiatives, the pragmatics of daily activities among the citizenry are now enshrined as heritage, creating a sense of self-consciously repeating the habits and traditions of forbears. These activities slice through modern distinctions of public and private, state and society, acquiring a new significance as the basis for forging the “Omani personality.” These include daily household chores, such as serving coffee, sprinkling rose water over guests on leave taking, weekly burning of incense throughout the home, wearing the disdasha to the office, or making traditional bread for breakfast.