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
- Title:
- 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)
- Main Title:
- The politics and practices of cultural heritage in the Middle East : positioning the material past in contemporary societies
- 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.
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