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

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

Beverley Butler's ethnography of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina project critiques the underlying western foundational concepts and values behind the Library in a nuanced postcolonial examination of memory, cultural revival, and homecoming.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butler, Beverley, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
Series:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
Subjects:
Aliksāndrīnā (Library) > History.
Aliksāndrīnā (Library)
Maktabat al-Iskandarīya
Alexandria > Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
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.
Egyptian revival (Art)
Egyptian Revival.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE > General.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Antiquities
Cultural policy
Cultural property > Protection
East and West
Library architecture
Museum techniques
North and south
Postcolonialism
Revival movements (Art)
Cultuurgoed.
Museumkunde.
Theorievorming.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Antiquities.
Egypt > Cultural policy.
Egypt
Egypt > Alexandria
Electronic book.
Case studies
History
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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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