LEADER 03696oam 2200793I 450 001 9910791434303321 005 20230808210945.0 010 $a1-315-42084-8 010 $a1-315-42083-X 010 $a1-315-42085-6 010 $a1-59874-653-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315420851 035 $a(CKB)2560000000050598 035 $a(EBL)677795 035 $a(OCoLC)604887610 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487075 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291821 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487075 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10442755 035 $a(PQKB)10705138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC677795 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4578669 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL677795 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10411847 035 $a(OCoLC)956466226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4578669 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000050598 100 $a20180706e20162007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReturn to Alexandria $ean ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory /$fBeverley Butler 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) 225 1 $aPublications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage 300 $aFirst published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc. 311 $a1-59874-191-8 311 $a1-59874-190-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index. 327 $aPreludes : 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'. 330 $aThe Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990's, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious-it coincided with scholarship moving away from the dominance of the western tradition; it privileged Alexandria's Greek heritage over 1500 years of Islamic scholarship; and it established an island for the cultural elite in an urban slum. Beverley Butler's ethnography of the project explores these contradictions, and the challenges faced by Egyptian... 410 0$aPublications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.$pCritical perspectives on cultural heritage. 606 $aRevival movements (Art)$zEgypt$zAlexandria 606 $aLibrary architecture$zEgypt$zAlexandria 606 $aCultural property$xProtection$vCase studies 606 $aMuseum techniques$vCase studies 606 $aEast and West$vCase studies 606 $aNorth and south$vCase studies 606 $aPostcolonialism$vCase studies 607 $aAlexandria (Egypt)$xAntiquities 607 $aEgypt$xCultural policy 615 0$aRevival movements (Art) 615 0$aLibrary architecture 615 0$aCultural property$xProtection 615 0$aMuseum techniques 615 0$aEast and West 615 0$aNorth and south 615 0$aPostcolonialism 676 $a069.0932 700 $aButler$b Beverley.$01511494 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791434303321 996 $aReturn to Alexandria$93744818 997 $aUNINA