The politics and practices of cultural heritage in the Middle East : positioning the material past in contemporary societies /: positioning the material past in contemporary societies. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rami Daher and Irene Maffi.
• Editors: Daher, Rami; Maffi, Irene
• Contents: Heritage as cultural capital in the late Ottoman Empire / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- The intricate life of cultural heritage: colonial and postcolonial processes of patrimonialisation in Jordan / Irene Maffi -- The 'Belle Epoque' in Egypt: registers, rhetorics and mechanisms of heritage invention / Mercedes Volait -- Challenging museum spaces: dancing with ethnic and cultural diversity in Lebanon / Lina Tahan -- Families and urban activists as emergent local actors in urban rehabilitation in the Mashreq: re-defining heritage/re-writing the city / Rami Daher -- 'Al-Madina al-Qadima' of Damascus: preservation of the cultural heritage, representations of the past, and the production of a valuable space / Domenico Copertino -- The domestic heritage: public or private heritage? The case of Aleppo / Jean-Claude David -- Is rural heritage relevant in an urbanising Mashreq? Exploring the discourse of landscape heritage in Lebanon / Jala Makhzoumi -- Moroccan-Jewish heritage re-visited / Sophie Wagenhofer -- 'Hidden treasures'? Museum collections of modern art from the Arab world (1891-2010) / Silvia Naef -- History and heritage studies: passing interest or epistemological turn? Western historical agenda or anthropological perspective? / Dominique Poulot.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 341 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 709.174927; Cultural property -- Arab countries; Arts -- Political aspects -- Arab countries; Art, Arab; Art, Arab; Arts -- Political aspects; Cultural policy; Cultural property; Intellectual life; Kulturerbe; Kulturpolitik; Kulturarv; Intellektuellt liv; ART / History / General; Arab countries -- Cultural policy; Arab countries -- Intellectual life; Arab countries; Arabische Staaten; Arabländerna; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786725066; 1786725061
• Related ISBNs: 9781848855359; 1848855354
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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