Flooded Pasts : : UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology / / William Carruthers.

Flooded Pasts examines a world famous, yet critically under-examined, event—UNESCO's 1960–80 International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the post-war world, but also helped to "recoloniz...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 29 b&w halftones, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction: Flooding Nubia
  • Chapter 1 The View from the Boat
  • Chapter 2 Documenting Nubia
  • Chapter 3 Valuing Egyptian Nubia
  • Chapter 4 Making Sudan Archaeological
  • Chapter 5 Peopling Nubia
  • Chapter 6 Nubia in the (Non-Aligned) World
  • Chapter 7 Traces of Nubia
  • Conclusion: Repeopling Nubia
  • Bibliography
  • Index