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Author Çelik, Zeynep, author.

Title About antiquities : politics of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire / Zeynep Çelik
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016

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Contents Beginnings : the nineteenth-century museum -- Scholarship and the Imperial Museum -- The Imperial Museum and its visitors -- The Ottoman reading public and antiquities -- The landscape of labor -- Dual settlements -- Epilogue. enduring dilemmas
Summary Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cultural exchanges, cooperation, abuses, and misunderstandings--all with the underlying element of financial gain. Indeed, "who owns antiquity?" is a contentious question in many of today's international conflicts. About Antiquities offers an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between archaeology and empire-building around the turn of the twentieth century. Starting at Istanbul and focusing on antiquities from the Ottoman territories, Zeynep Çelik examines the popular discourse surrounding claims to the past in London, Paris, Berlin, and New York. She compares and contrasts the experiences of two museums--Istanbul's Imperial Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art--that aspired to emulate European collections and gain the prestige and power of owning the material fragments of ancient history. Going beyond institutions, Çelik also unravels the complicated interactions among individuals--Westerners, Ottoman decision makers and officials, and local laborers--and their competing stakes in antiquities from such legendary sites as Ephesus, Pergamon, and Babylon. Recovering perspectives that have been lost in histories of archaeology, particularly those of the excavation laborers whose voices have never been heard, About Antiquities provides important historical context for current controversies surrounding nation-building and the ownership of the past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 8, 2016)
Subject İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri.
SUBJECT İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri fast
Subject Museums -- Turkey -- History
Archaeological museums and collections -- Turkey -- History
Archaeology -- Turkey -- History
Archaeology and state -- Turkey -- History
Nationalism -- Turkey -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE -- General.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Antiquities
Archaeological museums and collections
Archaeology
Archaeology and state
Museums
Nationalism
SUBJECT Turkey -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138785
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477310205
1477310207
9781477310212
1477310215