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Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on
contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient
Middle East. Bringing together the latest thinking from a diverse
and international group of leading curators, the book presents the
views of those working in one particular community of practice: the
art, archaeology, and history of the ancient Middle East. Drawing
upon a remarkable group of case studies from many of the world's
leading museums, including the British Museum, the Louvre, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ashmolean Museum, and the
Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, this volume describes the
tangible actions curators have taken to present a previously unseen
side of the Middle East region and its history. Highlighting
overlaps and distinctions between the practices of national, art,
and university museums around the globe, the contributors to the
volume are also able to offer a unique insight into the types of
challenges and opportunities facing the twenty-first century
curator. Museums and the Ancient Middle East should be of interest
to academics and students engaged in the study of museums and
heritage, archaeology, the ancient Near East, Middle Eastern
studies, and ancient history. The unique insights provided by
curators active in the field ensure that the book should also be of
great interest to museum practitioners around the globe.
Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on
contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient
Middle East. Bringing together the latest thinking from a diverse
and international group of leading curators, the book presents the
views of those working in one particular community of practice: the
art, archaeology, and history of the ancient Middle East. Drawing
upon a remarkable group of case studies from many of the world's
leading museums, including the British Museum, the Louvre, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ashmolean Museum, and the
Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, this volume describes the
tangible actions curators have taken to present a previously unseen
side of the Middle East region and its history. Highlighting
overlaps and distinctions between the practices of national, art,
and university museums around the globe, the contributors to the
volume are also able to offer a unique insight into the types of
challenges and opportunities facing the twenty-first century
curator. Museums and the Ancient Middle East should be of interest
to academics and students engaged in the study of museums and
heritage, archaeology, the ancient Near East, Middle Eastern
studies, and ancient history. The unique insights provided by
curators active in the field ensure that the book should also be of
great interest to museum practitioners around the globe.
The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and
empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known
outside their modern descendants and the community of
archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them.
The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated by the
region's role as neighbor, trade partner, and enemy of ancient
Egypt. Increasingly, however, ancient Nile-based Nubian cultures
are recognized in their own right as the earliest complex societies
in inner Africa. As agro-pastoral cultures, Nubian settlement,
economy, political organization, and religious ideologies were
often organized differently from those of the urban, bureaucratic,
and predominantly agricultural states of Egypt and the ancient Near
East. Nubian societies are thus of great interest in comparative
study, and are also recognized for their broader impact on the
histories of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. The
Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia brings together chapters by an
international group of scholars on a wide variety of topics that
relate to the history and archaeology of the region. After
important introductory chapters on the history of research in Nubia
and on its climate and physical environment, the largest part of
the volume focuses on the sequence of cultures that lead almost to
the present day. Several cross-cutting themes are woven through
these chapters, including essays on desert cultures and on Nubians
in Egypt. Eleven final chapters synthesize subjects across all
historical phases, including gender and the body, economy and
trade, landscape archaeology, iron working, and stone quarrying.
At a time when archaeology has turned away from questions of the
long-term and large scale, this collection of essays reflects on
some of the big questions in archaeology and ancient history - how
and why societies have grown in scale and complexity, how they have
maintained and discarded aspects of their own cultural heritage,
and how they have collapsed. In addressing these long-standing
questions of broad interest and importance, the authors develop
counter-narratives - new ways of understanding what used to be
termed 'cultural evolution'. Encompassing the Middle East and
Egypt, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, the American Southwest and
Mesoamerica, the fourteen essays offer perspectives on long-term
cultural trajectories; on cities, states and empires; on collapse;
and on the relationship between archaeology and history. The book
concludes with a commentary by one of the major voices in
archaeological theory, Norman Yoffee.
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