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Contesting antiquity in Egypt: archaeologies, museums & the struggle for identities from World War I to Nasser

Contesting antiquity in Egypt: archaeologies, museums & the struggle for identities from World War I to Nasser
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ISBN 9774169387 (softcover)
9789774169380 (softcover)
Author Reid, Donald M. (Donald Malcolm) 1940-
Title Contesting antiquity in Egypt : archaeologies, museums & the struggle for identities from World War I to Nasser / Donald Malcolm Reid
Publisher Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2015
Physical desc. xxii, 491 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Note Paperback edition, 2019.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-480) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part 1: Egyptology and pharaonism to 1930. Egyptology and pharaonism in Egypt before Tutankhamun -- Nationalizing Tutankhamun -- Western Egyptology in Egypt in the wake of Tutankhamun, 1922-1930 -- Egyptian Egyptology and pharaonism in the wake of Tutankhamun, 1922-1930 -- Part 2: Tourism and Islamic, Coptic, and Greco-Roman archaeologies. Consuming antiquity: Western tourism between two revolutions, 1919-1952 -- In the shadow of Egyptology: Islamic art and archaeology to 1952 -- Copts and archaeology: sons of Saint Mark/sons of the pharaohs -- Alexandria, Egypt, and the Greco-Roman heritage -- Part 3: Egyptology and pharaonism to Nasser's revolution. Contesting Egyptology in the 1930s -- Pharaonism and its challengers in the 1930s and 1940s -- Egyptology in the twilight of empire and monarchy, 1939-1952 -- Conclusion
Subject Egyptology -- History
Egyptologists
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt
Nationalism -- Egypt -- History
Archaeology -- Egypt -- History
Archaeological museums and collections -- Egypt -- History
Egypt -- Antiquities
Egypt -- Influences and relationships -- 20th century
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