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Bone and ivory carvings from Alexandria : French excavations 1992-2004.
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ISBN: 9782724704457 Year: 2007 Volume: 12 Publisher: Le Caire Institut français d'archeologie orientale


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Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory
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ISBN: 1315420848 131542083X 1315420856 1598746537 9781598746532 9781315420837 9781598741902 159874190X 9781598741919 1598741918 9781315420851 159874190X 9781598741902 9781315420820 Year: 2007 Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press,

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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990's, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious-it coincided with scholarship moving away from the dominance of the western tradition; it privileged Alexandria's Greek heritage over 1500 years of Islamic scholarship; and it established an island for the cultural elite in an urban slum. Beverley Butler's ethnography of the project explores these contradictions, and the challenges faced by Egyptian...

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Revival movements (Art) --- Cultural property --- Museum techniques --- East and West --- North and south --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- South and north --- Acculturation --- Culture conflict --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Museology --- Museums --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Arts --- Protection --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Technique --- Aliksāndrīnā (Library) --- Bibliotheca Alexandrina --- Alexandrina (Library) --- Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah --- Library of Alexandria --- Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie (Library) --- Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah al-Tārīkhīyah --- BA (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) --- ألكسندرينا (مكتبة) --- اسكندرية (المكتبة) --- الاكساندرينا (Library) --- الكساندرينا (مكتبة) --- مكتبة الإسكنةرية --- مكتبة الإسكندرية --- Biblioteca Alessandrina (Alexandria, Egypt) --- History. --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Cultural policy. --- Library architecture --- Architecture --- Applied museology --- Museography --- Museum practices --- Museum studies --- Aliksandrina (Library)


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Return to Alexandria : an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory.
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ISBN: 9781598741902 9781598741919 Year: 2007 Volume: *3 Publisher: Walnut Creek Left Coast Press

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revival [concept] --- libraries [buildings] --- museology --- cultural heritage --- antiquities [object genre] --- History of civilization --- Museology --- Alexandria --- Revival movements (Art) --- Library architecture --- Cultural property --- Museum techniques --- North and south --- Postcolonialism --- East and West --- Mouvements de renouveau (Art) --- Architecture des bibliothèques --- Biens culturels --- Muséologie --- Nord-Sud --- Postcolonialisme --- Orient et Occident --- Protection --- Case studies. --- Case studies --- Cas, Etudes de --- Etudes de cas --- Aliksandrina (Library) --- History. --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Alexandrie (Egypte) --- Egypte --- Antiquities. --- Cultural policy --- Antiquités --- Politique culturelle --- Architecture des bibliothèques --- Muséologie --- Aliksāndrīnā (Library) --- Antiquités --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- South and north --- Acculturation --- Culture conflict --- Arts --- Museums --- Architecture --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Technique --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Bibliotheca Alexandrina --- Alexandrina (Library) --- Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah --- Library of Alexandria --- Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie (Library) --- Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah al-Tārīkhīyah --- BA (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) --- ألكسندرينا (مكتبة) --- اسكندرية (المكتبة) --- الاكساندرينا (Library) --- الكساندرينا (مكتبة) --- مكتبة الإسكنةرية --- مكتبة الإسكندرية --- Biblioteca Alessandrina (Alexandria, Egypt) --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- Cultural policy. --- Applied museology --- Museography --- Museum practices --- Museum studies

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