Beverley Butler: 1 book
Return to Alexandria
An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious—it coincided with scholarship moving away from the dominance...
