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Archives, museums and collecting practices in the modern Arab world / editors, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, John Pedro Schwartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archives--Collection management--Arab countries.
- Archives.
- Archives--Processing--Arab countries.
- Museums--Collection management--Arab countries.
- Museums.
- Museum techniques--Arab countries.
- Museum techniques.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This unique book is the first to explore collecting practices in archives and museums in the modern Arab Middle East, featuring case studies of collecting practices in countries ranging from Egypt and Lebanon to Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, and the Gulf, and providing a theoretical and methodological basis for future research. The book will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of the modern Arab world but also to professionals in museums and collections in the region, as well as around the world.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Local representations of modernity
- pt. 2. Collecting practices, historiographic practices
- pt. 3. From institutional to artistic practices of collecting.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-56783-0
- 1-317-17883-1
- 1-280-77544-0
- 9786613685834
- 1-4094-4617-4
- 9781315567839
- OCLC:
- 796383897
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