UID:
edoccha_9961447747202883
Format:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
3-031-51391-6
Note:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Archaeological Ambassadors -- 1.1 Framing Archaeological Gifts: Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Gifts, Objects, and Exchanges -- 1.2 Archaeology and Cultural Diplomacy: Monuments and Objects as Tools of Diplomacy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 1.3 Précis of the Chapters -- Bibliography -- Archives Consulted -- Primary and Secondary Sources -- Chapter 2: Cleopatra's Needle: An Obelisk for a Rising Metropolis -- 2.1 Obelisks: Monuments, Symbols, Commodities, and Archaeological Gifts -- 2.2 Archaeological Gifts, Diplomacy, and Political Expediency in Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt -- 2.3 New York Gets Its Obelisk -- 2.4 The Obelisk Arrives -- 2.5 The Legacy of New York City's First Archaeological Gift -- Bibliography -- Primary and Secondary Sources -- Chapter 3: Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Marathon Stone, Casts, and Presidential Gifts -- 3.1 The Uniqueness and Commodification of Greek Antiquities -- 3.2 The Marathon Stone -- 3.3 The Arrival of the Stone at City College -- 3.4 Lewisohn Stadium -- 3.5 As Good as the Real Thing: Greek Gifts of Casts in the Twentieth Century -- 3.6 Casts at the Greek and Turkish Pavilions at the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City -- 3.7 The Value of Greek Gifts -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources -- Archives Consulted and Unpublished Sources -- Primary and Secondary Sources -- Chapter 4: Columns as Cultural Capital: The Jordanian Practice of Gifting Archaeological Objects -- 4.1 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair -- 4.2 The Column of Jerash -- 4.3 The Jordan Pavilion and the Presentation of Archaeology, Politics, and Tourism -- 4.4 Archaeology, Archaeological Objects, and Political Agendas at American World's Fairs -- 4.5 Gifting Capitals and Columns to American Universities and Cities.
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4.6 Would the Met Like a Dead Sea Scroll Jar? -- 4.7 Strategic Sales of Antiquities by Jordan -- 4.7.1 Strategic Sales I: Dead Sea Scroll Jars -- 4.7.2 Strategic Sales II: Early Bronze Age Pots from Bâb Adh-Dhrâ' -- 4.8 Capitals, Columns, and Jars: Archaeological Diplomacy at Work -- Bibliography -- Archives Consulted and Unpublished Materials -- Primary and Secondary Sources -- Chapter 5: An Exquisite Toy: The Temple of Dendur, a Gift for New York -- 5.1 Ancient Nubia: Dams, People, Temples, and Economic Development -- 5.2 The 1950s: Nasser, Suez, and Nubia -- 5.3 The UNESCO Project: Archaeology and Cultural Opportunism for the United States -- 5.4 The UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1959-1980) -- 5.5 John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and the Soft Power of Archaeology and Antiquities -- 5.6 The Economics of Heritage -- 5.7 The Surplus Temples -- 5.8 The Dendur Derby -- 5.9 The Sackler Wing, the Grand Unveiling in 1978, and New Yorkers' Responses -- 5.10 The New Life of the Temple in New York: African Americans, Tourists, and Protest -- 5.11 Benefits for Egypt -- Bibliography -- Archives Consulted and Published Sources -- Primary and Secondary Sources -- Chapter 6: Walks with Minerva and the Contemporary Lives of Archaeological Gifts -- 6.1 The Contemporary Lives of Archaeological Gifts in New York City -- 6.2 The Economic and Political Realities of Archaeological Gifts -- 6.3 Future Avenues for the Study of Archaeological Gifts -- Bibliography -- Archives Consulted -- Primary and Secondary Sources -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-031-51390-8
Language:
English
