Conflicted Antiquities ：Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity ( e-Duke books scholarly collection. )

Publication subTitle ：Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

Publication series ：e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Author： Elliott Colla  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9780822390398

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822339922

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822339755

Subject： K411.4 , near contemporary history (1798 ~)

Keyword： Egyptology., Nationalism -- Egypt -- History., Egypt -- Antiquities., Egypt -- Civilization -- 1798-

Language： ENG

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Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans. The values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology played a key role in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt. This fact was not lost on Egyptian nationalists, who challenged colonial archaeologists with the claim that they were the direct heirs of the Pharaohs, and therefore the rightful owners and administrators of ancient Egypt’s historical sites and artifacts. As this dispute developed, nationalists invented the political and expressive culture of “Pharaonism”—Egypt’s response to Europe’s Egyptomania. In the process, a significant body of modern, Pharaonist poetry, sculpture, architecture, and film was created by artists and authors who looked to the ancient past for inspiration.

Colla draws on medieval and modern Arabic poetry, novels, and travel accounts; British and French travel writing; the history of archaeology; and the history of European and Egyptian museums and exhibits. The struggle over the ownership of Pharaonic Egypt did not simply pit Egyptian nationalists against Eu

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room

1. The Artifaction of the Memnon Head

Ozymandias

2. Conflicted Antiquities: Islam’s Pharaoh and the Emergent Egyptology

The Antiqakhana

3. Pharaonic Selves

Two Pharaohs

4. The Discovery of Tutankhamen’s Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, Literature

Nahdat Misr

5. Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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