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• W2594273073 abstract "Reid, Donald Malcolm. Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums & the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2015. 491 pages. Hardback $ 59.95In recent years, the controversial history of archaeology and imperialism has emerged as an interdisciplinary field in its own right. It weds such diverse subjects of historical inquiry as art, photography, politics, conservation, and preservation. Above all, it offers an inexhaustible Pandora's box of visual and documentary archives, which are as rich as the yet unexcavated sites and as contested as the objects that are unearthed. Only in the last decade, scholarship on the subject was enriched by works such as Wendy Shaw's Possessors and Possessed (2003), Maya Jasanoff's Edge of Empire (2005), and Edhem Eldem and Zeynep Celik's collaborative volume Scramble for the Past (2015). The common historiographical intent behind these archive-centered publications is twofold. One is to wrest the history of archaeology from a discourse that was all too narrowly focused on Napoleon's explorers and German Orientalists. The second is to call attention to a large and dedicated cast of amateurs and scholars-both European and Middle Eastern-who transformed the initially dilettantish practice into a discipline over the course of the nineteenth century.It was Donald Malcolm Reid's seminal book Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (2002) that gave such publications the impetus to break from the dominant historical perspective in favor of foregrounding the colonized and exploited lands, peoples, and cultures. It brought to life the previously underplayed agency of Egyptian archaeologists (Ahmad Kamal, Ali Behgat, Selim Hassan, Murqus Simaika, Taha Hussein, and Sami Gabra) during the nineteenth century when Egypt was caught between the Ottoman and various European spheres of political influence. In his second book titled Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums & the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser, Reid continues to chart the histories of these same individuals from World War I to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 that terminated the British occupation and its puppet monarchy. He argues that it was in this semi-colonial period that the Egyptian cultural and academic institutions began to finally nationalize their ranks by appointing Egyptian scholars.In Contesting Antiquity in Egypt, Reid replicates the four-museum framework that he set up in Whose Pharaohs? The pages track the transformation of leadership throughout the first half of the twentieth century in the Egyptian Museum, Graeco-Roman Museum, Coptic Museum, and the Museum of Arab Art. While his review of a critical era in the evolution of Egypt's relationship to its own antiquity is an important expansion of his previous work, several deficits impede its ability to fulfill the promise of the first book.To begin with, the four museums do not emerge as the arenas in the struggle for independence that he claims they are-for the narrative never once references the specific curatorial agendas of these institutions. In fact, Reid frequently digresses from this spatial framework. The chapter on the Graeco-Roman Museum, in particular, reads rather as a history of the development of the field of Classics in Egypt. The book relies a little too heavily on the content of its prequel and trusts that his readers have read his first. Some of the most important institutions of Egyptian archaeology such as the Antiquities Service (founded in 1858 by the Egyptian Viceroy Said Pasha and led by a flurry of French scholars for decades) appear without context. At times, the historian's reliance on the prequel is so much so that identical phrases and sentences appear, most glaringly in the introduction.Art historians, especially, will be dismayed to find that reading the visual evidence of the practices of Egyptian Pharaonism is not Reid's forte. …" @default.
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