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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritagePublication details: Walnut Creek, Calif. Left Coast Press 2007Description: 299 p. ill., map 23 cmISBN:
  • 1-59874-190-X
  • 1-59874-191-8 (hft.)
  • 978-1-59874-190-2
  • 978-1-59874-191-9 (hft.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.0932 22
Other classification:
  • Bg:k
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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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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