03696oam 2200793I 450 991081134500332120230808210945.01-315-42084-81-315-42083-X1-315-42085-61-59874-653-710.4324/9781315420851 (CKB)2560000000050598(EBL)677795(OCoLC)604887610(SSID)ssj0000487075(PQKBManifestationID)11291821(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487075(PQKBWorkID)10442755(PQKB)10705138(MiAaPQ)EBC677795(MiAaPQ)EBC4578669(Au-PeEL)EBL677795(CaPaEBR)ebr10411847(OCoLC)956466226(Au-PeEL)EBL4578669(EXLCZ)99256000000005059820180706e20162007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrReturn to Alexandria an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory /Beverley ButlerLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (300 pages)Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritageFirst published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.1-59874-191-8 1-59874-190-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.Preludes : founding myth and archive -- The 'Alexandria Project' in the western imagination -- 'On the ruins' : postcolonial heritage metamorphosis -- Contemporary return to Alexandria : international sacred dramas -- 'Revivalism between worlds' : UNESCO and GOAL -- 'Meltdown' : revivalism's 'time of anxiety' -- 'Spirit of aspiration' : archaeological revivalism and recuperation -- Urban shock therapy : Alexandria's 'Las Vegasisation' -- 'Windows onto contemporary worlds'.The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990's, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious-it coincided with scholarship moving away from the dominance of the western tradition; it privileged Alexandria's Greek heritage over 1500 years of Islamic scholarship; and it established an island for the cultural elite in an urban slum. Beverley Butler's ethnography of the project explores these contradictions, and the challenges faced by Egyptian...Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.Revival movements (Art)EgyptAlexandriaLibrary architectureEgyptAlexandriaCultural propertyProtectionCase studiesMuseum techniquesCase studiesEast and WestCase studiesNorth and southCase studiesPostcolonialismCase studiesAlexandria (Egypt)AntiquitiesEgyptCultural policyRevival movements (Art)Library architectureCultural propertyProtectionMuseum techniquesEast and WestNorth and southPostcolonialism069.0932Butler Beverley.1632909MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811345003321Return to Alexandria3972372UNINA