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Camel Racing
Title: Camel Racing
Category: Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 835 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Camel Racing
This paper offers a description of camel racing as a growing traditional cultural heritage sport in Gulf Arab societies. An integrated approach is used in describing and analyzing the multiple aspects and functions of the races as an evolving cultural revival within the broad contexts of oil wealth, the building of modern nation-state, and modern global forces. Camel racing is analyzed as an activity for distributing oil wealth among the Bedouin segment of the United …showed first 75 words of 835 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 835 total…to top speeds. As the camels run around the sandy track, a group of vans and 4WD’s follow on a ring road. Video cameras catch the action, which is played on television screens mounted on poles in front of the viewing stands. There are several segregated sections. Sheiks and sultans claim the luxury boxes in the middle, while common folk sit off to the right. The last section is for western guests and tourists.
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