Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters: Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the Late 19th–Early 20th Centuries (Bloomsbury Egyptology) - Softcover

Mairs, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472588800 ISBN 13: 9781472588807

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters

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Review:

This book is a fascinating read from beginning to end. It comes at a time when a post-colonial approach has finally begun to be applied to early archaeological work and not only to non-professional travellers. This new interest, however, has never taken the linguistic issue into account, and thus this book comes to complement the work of scholars engaging with early archaeological colonialism.
Arietta Papaconstantinou, Associate Professor, University of Reading, UK

This interesting and accessible book presents both new and little-known information on the social history of dragomans and interpreters in Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late 19th to early 20th centuries and casts light on and the Anglo-American aversion to learning Arabic and Turkish that made them necessary. Mairs and Muratov excavate new archival sources: a diary and curated testimonial book to discover the voice and agency of two individuals who shaped westerners experience of the Holy Lands, thereby rescuing them from the anonymity of a client-based perspective. --Susan Heuck Allen, Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics, Brown University, USA

About the Author:

Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK. Maya Muratov is AssistaRachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK.

Maya Muratov is Assistant Professor of Art History at Adelphi University, USA.nt Professor of Art History at Adelphi University, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1472588800
• ISBN 13: 9781472588807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160