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Flooded pasts : UNESCO, Nubia, and the recolonization of archaeology

This book examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event-UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960-80)-to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonise"...

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Main Author: Carruthers, William (Author, VerfasserIn)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2022
Series:Cornell scholarship online
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Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501766442.001.0001
Author Notes:William Carruthers
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : University Press Scholarship Online / Archaeology
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