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

By: Butler, BeverleyContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonCritical perspectives on cultural heritagePublication details: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007Description: 299 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): 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 policyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 069.0932 LOC classification: Z722.5 | .B88 2007Online resources: Click to View
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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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, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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