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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
Fax: (401) 863-9423
[email protected]
Topics/Themes:
• Nationalism and the past • Conservation and its consequences • Colonialism and culture
Readings:
• Documentary: Living With The Past: Historic Cairo dir Maysoon Pachachli (watch in class 12/7)
• Straughn, Ian. forthcoming. “The Contemplation of Ruins: Heritage Practice and the Cosmopolitanism of Cairo’s Islamic Past.” contribution for Heritage Cities and Places, ed. D. Fairchild Ruggles, Springer.
• Sheehan, P. (2010). Babylon of Egypt: The archaeology of old Cairo and the origin of the city. Cairo, AUC Press. (Ch.6 )
• Silberman, N. A. (1989). Egypt: An uneasy inheritance (Ch 9). Between past and present : archaeology, ideology, and nationalism in the modern Middle East. New York: H. Holt.
• Colla, Elliott. (2008). Conflicted Antiquities. Durham: Duke University Press. (selections)