Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War 1 to Nasser PDF
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Contesting Antiquity in Egypt Contesting Antiquity in Egypt Archaeologies, Museums & the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser Donald Malcolm Reid The American University in Cairo Press Cairo New York First published in 2015 by The American University in Cairo Press 113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt 420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 www.aucpress.com Copyright © 2015 by Donald Malcolm Reid All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Exclusive distribution outside Egypt and North America by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 6 Salem Road, London, W4 2BU Dar el Kutub No. 13771/14 ISBN 978 977 416 689 1 Dar el Kutub Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reid, Donald Malcolm Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser/ Donald Malcolm Reid.—Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2015. p. cm. ISBN 978 977 416 689 1 1. Egypt—Antiquities 932 1 2 3 4 5 19 18 17 16 15 Designed by Adam el-Sehemy Printed in Egypt For my Grandchildren: Juliette, Malcolm, and Ben and For the Grandchildren of Egypt Contents Map of Egypt ix List of Figures xi List of Tables xv List of Abbreviations xvii Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates xix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1 Part One: Egyptology and Pharaonism to 1930 1. Egyptology and Pharaonism in Egypt before Tutankhamun 19 2. Nationalizing Tutankhamun 51 3. Western Egyptology in Egypt in the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 81 4. Egyptian Egyptology and Pharaonism in the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 109 Part Two: Tourism and Islamic, Coptic, and Greco–Roman Archaeologies 5. Consuming Antiquity: Western Tourism between Two Revolutions, 1919–1952 137 6. In the Shadow of Egyptology: Islamic Art and Archaeology to 1952 167 vii 7. Copts and Archaeology: Sons of Saint Mark / Sons of the Pharaohs 197 8. Alexandria, Egypt, and the Greco–Roman Heritage 229 Part Three: Egyptology and Pharaonism to Nasser’s Revolution 9. Contesting Egyptology in the 1930s 263 10. Pharaonism and Its Challengers in the 1930s and 1940s 295 11. Egyptology in the Twilight of Empire and Monarchy, 1939–1952 329 12. Conclusion 355 Notes 369 Bibliography 449 Index 481 viii Contents Map of Egypt. Donald Malcolm Reid, Whose Pharaohs? (Berkeley: University of Cali- fornia Press, 2002, and Cairo: AUC Press, 2003), xvii. Adapted with permission of the University of California Press.
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