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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: 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., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 069.0932 22
LOC classification:
  • Z722.5 .B88 2007eb
Online resources:
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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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