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

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Autor Principal: Butler, Beverley
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.
Series:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
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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'.