Return to Alexandria [electronic resource] : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory / Beverley Butler.
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TextSeries: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.Publication details: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.Description: 299 p. : ill., mapISBN: - 9781598746532
- Aliksandrina (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
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- Z722.5 .B88 2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.
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'.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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