The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamil...
The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamil...
The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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2007.
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N938/213
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English
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xxii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Memories Cast in Marble: Introduction -- 2. The 'Soldiers', the 'Priests', and the 'Hospitals for Contagious Diseases': the Producers of Archaeological Matter-realities -- 3. From Western to Indigenous Hellenism: Antiquity, Archaeology, and the Invention of Modern Greece -- 4. The Archaeologist a...
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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England
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2007.
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Focusing on the agency and power of materiality, he explores topics such as the role of antiquities and archaeology in the formation of the Greek nation and the foundation of the state; the links between colonial and national imagination; the archaeological creation of monumentalized landscapes such as the Athenian Acropolis; the role of key nation...
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The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.
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The nation and its ruins.
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Classical presences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N938/213
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0199230382 (hbk.) :
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938
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991023831909702626
