Souvenirs and New Ideas: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE Publications) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1842178156 ISBN 13: 9781842178157

Verlag: Oxbow Books, 2013

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This volume is a must purchase for graduate school and seminary libraries, and a must read for anyone woking in early Israelite origins, whether in archaelogy or biblical studies. -- Near East Archaeological Bulletin Near East Archaeological Bulletin

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During the 18th and 19th centuries, many travellers aimed to record their travels through Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Turkey by collecting souvenirs and mementos of places they had visited. This natural inclination took many different guises: from innocent activities such as making diaries and sketches, gathering academic knowledge or taking photographs, to acquiring souvenirs, very often antiquities. Other, more unscrupulous, travellers undertook journeys specifically to `collect' antiquities to form the basis of museum collections or to profit by re-selling them. Souvenirs and New Ideas explores the human desire to retain the memory of a journey by `collecting objects' with a series of essays examining the motivation of a variety of different travellers ranging from intrepid female solo travellers to European royalty. The acquisitions of these individuals ranged from tales of folklore and academic knowledge to the wholesale looting of Egyptian antiquities. Although the habit of `collecting antiquities' is deplored and condemned today, this volume sheds light on the attitudes behind the practice and seeks to strengthen our current beliefs about the value of cultural patrimony.

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• Verlag: Oxbow Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1842178156
• ISBN 13: 9781842178157
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Herausgeber: Fortenberry Diane