Ethics of History Making

Amal Sachedina
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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.
历史创造伦理
本章探讨了遗产意象无处不在及其创造的社会现实背后的潜在原因。它探讨了阿曼国家官员试图通过将过去、现在和未来之间的联系合理化的模式,将与遗产图像的生活联系的生产可能性自然化的方式,以及这种时间逻辑如何成为道德价值观、性格和实践的基础,从而奠定了阿曼公民和遗产图像之间理想化关系的基础。由于国家的主动行动,公民日常活动的实用主义现在被奉为遗产,创造了一种自觉地重复祖先的习惯和传统的感觉。这些活动打破了公共和私人、国家和社会的现代区别,作为塑造“阿曼人格”的基础,获得了新的意义。这些包括日常家务,比如上咖啡,给休假的客人洒玫瑰水,每周在家里烧香,戴着不屑去办公室,或者做传统的早餐面包。
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