Return to Alexandria [electronic resource] : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory / Beverley Butler.
Series: 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., mapISBN:- 9781598741902 (alk. paper)
- 159874190X (alk. paper)
- 9781598741919 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1598741918 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Aliks�andr�in�a (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
- 069.0932 22
- Z722.5 .B88 2007eb
eBooks
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.