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Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory / / Beverley Butler



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Autore: Butler Beverley Visualizza persona
Titolo: Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory / / Beverley Butler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910458441003321
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Serie: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. . -Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.