Return to Alexandria: An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory (Paperback)

Introduction; Chapter 1 The ‘Alexandria Project’ in the Western Imagination; Chapter 2 ‘On the Ruins’: Postcolonial Heritage Metamorphosis; Chapter 3 Contemporary Return to Alexandria: International Sacred Dramas; Chapter 4 ‘Revivalism between Worlds’: UNESCO and GOAL; Chapter 5 ‘Meltdown’: Revivalism’s ‘Time of Anxiety’; Chapter 6 ‘Spirit of Aspiration’: Archaeological Revivalism and Recuperation; Chapter 7 Urban Shock Therapy: Alexandria’s ‘Las Vegasisation’; concl Conclusion ‘Windows onto Contemporary Worlds’;