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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Donald M, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egyptology--History--Egypt.

Egyptology.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Egypt--Antiquities.

Egypt.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun's tomb, close on the heels of Britain's declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of 'pharaonism'-popular interest in ancient Egypt - as an inspiration in the struggle for full independence. Emphasizing the three decades from 1922 until Nasser's revolution in 1952, this book looks at the ways in which Egypt developed its own archaeologies - Islamic, Coptic, and Greco-Roman, as well as the more dominant ancient Egyptian.

Contents:

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 Tutankamon, 1922- 1930

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 pharaons

Alexandria, Egypt, and the Greco-Roman heritage

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2015).

ISBN:

1-61797-682-2

1-61797-675-X