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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butler, Beverley.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.
Series:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
Subjects:
Aliksāndrīnā (Library) > History.
Revival movements (Art) > Egypt > Alexandria.
Library architecture > Egypt > Alexandria.
Cultural property > Protection > Case studies.
Museum techniques > Case studies.
East and West > Case studies.
North and south > Case studies.
Postcolonialism > Case studies.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Antiquities.
Egypt > Cultural policy.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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'.

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