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Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory
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Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory / Beverley Butler.
ISBN
9781598741902 (alk. paper)
159874190X (alk. paper)
9781598741919 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1598741918 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.
Physical Description
299 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 26, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.
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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