Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory / / Beverley Butler
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Butler Beverley
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| Titolo: |
Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory / / Beverley Butler
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| Pubblicazione: | Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 069.0932 |
| Soggetto topico: | Revival movements (Art) - Egypt - Alexandria |
| Library architecture - Egypt - Alexandria | |
| Cultural property - Protection | |
| Museum techniques | |
| East and West | |
| North and south | |
| Postcolonialism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Alexandria (Egypt) Antiquities |
| Egypt Cultural policy | |
| Note generali: | First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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'. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Return to Alexandria |
| ISBN: | 1-315-42084-8 |
| 1-315-42083-X | |
| 1-315-42085-6 | |
| 1-59874-653-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811345003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. . -Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.