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Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World.
This unique book is the first to explore collecting practices in archives and museums in the modern Arab Middle East, featuring case studies of collecting practices in countries ranging from Egypt and Lebanon to Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, and the Gulf, and providing a theoretical and methodological ba...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Publishing Ltd,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Contents; Notes on Editors and Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction: Challenges and Directions in an Emerging Field of Research; Part I: Local Representations of Modernity; 1 Collecting the Nation: Lexicography and National Pedagogy in al-nahda al-'arabiyya; 2 Between Looters and Private Collectors: The Tragic Fate of Lebanese Antiquities; 3 Tawfik Canaan
- Collectionneur par excellence: The Story Behind the Palestinian Amulet Collection at Birzeit University; Part II: Collecting Practices, Historiographic Practices.
- 4 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Collector, Dealer and Academic in the Informal Old-Paper Markets of Cairo5 The Reform of History School Textbooks in Lebanon: Collecting Conflict Memories in a Peace-Building Process (1996-2001); 6 The Beit Beirut Project: Heritage Practices and the Barakat Building; Part III: From Institutional to Artistic Practices of Collecting; 7 The Formation of the Khalid Shoman Private Collection and the Founding of Darat al Funun; 8 The Ecstasy of Property: Collecting in the United Arab Emirates; 9 Collecting Modern Iraqi Art.
- 10 Collecting the Uncanny and the Labour of MissingIndex.