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Archives, museums and collecting practices in the modern Arab world

Archives, museums and collecting practices in the modern Arab world
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ISBN 1409446166 (hbk.)
9781409446163 (hbk.)
Title Archives, museums and collecting practices in the modern Arab world / edited by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, John Pedro Schwartz
Publisher Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012
Physical desc. xiv, 234 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: challenges and directions in an emerging field of research / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz -- Pt. 1: Local representations of modernity. Collecting the nation: lexicography and national pedagogy in al-nahda al-'arabiyya / Nadia Bou Ali -- Between looters and private collectors: the tragic fate of Lebanese antiquities / Hélène Sader -- Tawfik Canaan - collectionneur par excellence: the story behind the Palestinian amulet collection at Birzeit University / Vera Tamari -- Pt. 2: Collecting practices, historiographic practices. The good, the bad and the ugly: collector, dealer and academic in the informal old-paper markets of Cairo / Lucie Ryzova -- The reform of history school textbooks in Lebanon: collecting conflict memories in a peace-building process (1996-2001) / Betty Gilbert-Sleiman -- The Beit Beirut project: heritage practices and the Barakat building / Sophie Brones -- Pt. 3: From institutional to artistic practices of collecting. The formation of the Khalid Shoman private collection and the founding of Darat al Funum / Sarah A. Rogers -- The ecstasy of property: collecting in the United Arab Emirates / Emily Doherty -- Collecting modern Iraqi art / Nada Shabout -- Collecting the uncanny and the labour of the missing / Walid Sadek.
Subject Archives -- Collection management -- Arab countries
Archives -- Processing -- Arab countries
Museums -- Collection management -- Arab countries
Museum techniques -- Arab countries
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