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About antiquities : politics of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire / Zeynep Çelik.
Author
Çelik, Zeynep
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Austin : University of Texas Press, [2016]
Description
x, 268 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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Available Online
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
AM79.T8 C45 2016
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Subject(s)
Museums
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Turkey
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History
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Archaeological museums and collections
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Turkey
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History
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Archaeology
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Turkey
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History
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Archaeology and state
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Turkey
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History
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Nationalism
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Turkey
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History
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Turkey
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Antiquities
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İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri
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Summary note
"Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cultural exchanges, cooperation, abuses, and misunderstandings--all with the underlying element of financial gain. Indeed, "who owns antiquity?" is a contentious question in many of today's international conflicts. About Antiquities offers an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between archaeology and empire-building around the turn of the twentieth century. Starting at Istanbul and focusing on antiquities from the Ottoman territories, Zeynep Çelik examines the popular discourse surrounding claims to the past in London, Paris, Berlin, and New York. She compares and contrasts the experiences of two museums--Istanbul's Imperial Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art--that aspired to emulate European collections and gain the prestige and power of owning the material fragments of ancient history. Going beyond institutions, Çelik also unravels the complicated interactions among individuals--Westerners, Ottoman decision makers and officials, and local laborers--and their competing stakes in antiquities from such legendary sites as Ephesus, Pergamon, and Babylon. Recovering perspectives that have been lost in histories of archaeology, particularly those of the excavation laborers whose voices have never been heard, About Antiquities provides important historical context for current controversies surrounding nation-building and the ownership of the past." -- From Amazon.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Beginnings : the nineteenth-century museum
Scholarship and the Imperial Museum
The Imperial Museum and its visitors
The Ottoman reading public and antiquities
The landscape of labor
Dual settlements
Epilogue. enduring dilemmas.
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ISBN
9781477310199 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1477310193 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9781477310618 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1477310614 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
SuDoc no.
Z UA380.8 C330ab
LCCN
2016006704
OCLC
939911084
Doi
10.7560/310199
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