About Antiquities : : Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire / / Zeynep Çelik.

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 content...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author’s Note on Names, Dates, and Measurements
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Beginnings: The Nineteenth-Century Museum
  • CHAPTER TWO. Scholarship and the Imperial Museum
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Imperial Museum and Its Visitors
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Ottoman Reading Public and Antiquities
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Landscape of Labor
  • CHAPTER SIX. Dual Settlements
  • Epilogue: Enduring Dilemmas
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index