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Book SynopsisFlooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined eventUNESCO''s International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (196080)to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to recolonize it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeologyforged in the crucible of imperialismplayed as the new nations asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War.
As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser''s Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new barrage''s floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian archaeological work conducted under British occupation and influence. During that process, the campaign dre
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[H]is refreshingly critical approach to the subject will undoubtedly transform our understanding of the UNESCO Campaign, beyond a Western Egyptological lens.
* Egyptian Archaeology *
Today, as one witnesses the violence being inflicted upon modern-day Cairo (also under the guise of the state's modernization and developmental projects), with certain histories deemed insignificant and cursorily erased and others being cheaply promoted with pomp (e.g., the mummy parade; the sphinx avenue celebrations), Flooded Pasts could not be a more timely contribution.
* The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Flooding Nubia
1. The View from the Boat
2. Documenting Nubia
3. Valuing Egyptian Nubia
4. Making Sudan Archaeological
5. Peopling Nubia
6. Nubia in the (Non-Aligned) World
7. Traces of Nubia
Conclusion: Repeopling Nubia
