Finding antiquity, making the modern Middle East : archaeology, empires, nations /
edited by Guillemette Crouzet and Eva Miller.
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Opplysninger | Housing the Mausoleum : British Travellers and Excavation in Bodrum c.1760-1870 / Debbie Challis -- Austen Henry Layard and the Cadi's letter : the Multiple Pasts and Futures of Nineteenth-century Mosul / Daniel Foliard -- Who Owns the Phoenician Past? German Orientalism and the Politics of Time and Space Across the Mediterranean / Nora Derbal -- Near Eastern Studies in Germany and the Complex Involvement of German Jews with 'the Orient' / Thomas L. Gertzen -- Antiquities for 'A' Mandate : Internationalism, the Emergence of a Regime of Archaeology and the Reorganization of the Middle East, c. 1918-1939 / Billie Melman -- Antique Nationalism : Archaeology and the Construction of the Nation in Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine-Israel / Erin M.B. O'Halloran -- Who (or What) is a 'Phoenician'? The Complex History of an Ancient People in a Modern Society / Marwan Kilani -- Between Archaeology and Nationalism : the Iran Bastan's Appropriation of the Imperial Museum Paradigm / Solmaz Kive -- The Traders : Archaeology, Family and Fortune between Saïda and Paris / Sarah Griswold -- Subjects of Destruction : Preservationism, Extractivism and Cultural Property in Egypt (1882-1939) / Robert James Vigar and Amany Abd el Hameed -- Who is an Archaeologist? Deconstructing Archaeology in Palestine / Nicole Khayat -- Excavating Iraq's Past within the Pages of Lughat al-'Arab, 1911-1931 / Laith Shakir -- Dismantling Nablus : the Samaritans, Orientalism and the Mandate Department of Antiquities / Sarah Irving -- Destructing Middle Eastern and North African Archaeological Practices : An Indigenous Egyptian CounterNarrative / Heba Abd el Gawad -- Epilogue / Lynn Meskell. - "Through a series of archaeological case studies, this book explores how the notion of the ancient Middle-Eastern past was established and contested in the 19th and early 20th centuries. On the one hand, Western empires fought for influence and control over Middle Eastern civilisation, empire and monuments, while, on the other, local powers in the Middle East worked with and against the idea of their own region's antiquity. The contributors draw on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches, such as postcolonial studies, heritage studies and international relations, covering geographic regions such as Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and Algeria"--
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