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The Ancient Near East in the Nineteenth Century: Appreciations and Appropriations. II. Collecting, Constructing, and Curating

Autor Kevin M. McGeough
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 mai 2015
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, little was known of the ancient Near East except for what was preserved in the Bi-ble and classical literature. By the end of the nineteenth cen-tury, an amazing transformation had occurred: the basic out-line of ancient Near Eastern history was understood and the mate-rial culture of the region was recognizable to the general pub-lic. This three-volume study explores the various ways that non-specialists would have encountered ancient Egypt, Mesopota-mia, and the Holy Land and how they derived and con-structed meaning from those discoveries. McGeough chal-lenges the simplistic view that the experience of the ancient Near East was solely a matter of 'othering' and shows how differ-ent people claimed the Near East as their own space and how connections were drawn between the ancient and contempo-rary worlds. Volume II examines the different ways that non-specialists encoun-tered the materiality of the ancient Near East over the course of the nineteenth century. During this time, people col-lected artifacts while traveling in the region or paid to see the col-lections that others brought back. The public experienced the ancient world in museum exhibits that privileged 'real' arti-facts in a new context or in hyper-real displays (like the Crystal Palace) where whole buildings from the ancient Near East were reconstructed. Men and women dressed as biblical charac-ters in travelling fairs or spent an evening unwrapping a mummy. Individuals bought Assyriological souvenirs and em-ployed Egyptian styles in their design, first in higher quality de-signer products and later in novelty items. Egyptian temples pro-vided the architectural inspiration for buildings in London and the ancient use of colour was a strong argument for reimagin-ing Victorian style. The adoption of Egypt, especially, in the world's-fair phenomenon linked the ancient Near East with a global future in which change was naturalized and consum-ers were taught not to be afraid of the transformations brought by the industrial age."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781909697669
ISBN-10: 1909697664
Pagini: 450
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.8 kg
Editura: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd

Notă biografică

Kevin M. McGeough is professor of archaeology in the Department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge and holds a Board of Governor's Research Chair in Archaeological Theory and Reception. Having excavated in Israel, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, and Canada, he is the co-editor of the Alberta Archaeological Review and chair of publications for the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR). He is currently researching the reception of Near Eastern Archaeology in a variety of media and has recently published a three-volume book on archaeological reception in the Victorian era, The Ancient Near East in the Nineteenth Century (2015).