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

Publication Data

• Title Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory
• Author Beverley Butler
• Publisher Left Coast
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Walnut Creek, Calif.
• Language English

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'.

Topics

• Aliksāndrīnā (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
• Alexandria (Egypt)
• Egypt

Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory by Beverley Butler. ISBN 9781598741919. Published by Left Coast in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.