[Bilimsel Haber] Publ.: Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Lorans Tanatar Baruh <Lorans.Baruh at saltonline.org>

Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to introduce you the latest publication of SALT.  I 
believe it might be of some interest to you.
Lorans Tanatar Baruh
Associate Director of Research and Programs


Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 
1753-1914
Edited by Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem
Istanbul: SALT, November 2011, 519 p.
ISBN 9789944731270

http://saltonline.org/en/#!/en/194/gecmise-hucum-yayinlar_break/

Scramble for the Past explores the historiography of archaeology in the 
Ottoman domains between the founding of London's British Museum in 1753 
and that of Istanbul's Evkaf Museum of Islamic art in 1914. It sees the 
rise of archaeology not as an alien western imposition upon the east, or 
indeed as a purely European invention, but as a process that emerged out 
of an interaction between Europe and the Ottoman world. Essays by 
fifteen leading international scholars explore the relationship of 
archaeology to politics, ideology, and national identity as well as the 
influences of the ancient finds on popular culture.

Filled with anecdote and incident, richly illustrated with period 
paintings, sculptures, postcards, photographs, documents, and rarities 
from the Ottoman archives, Scramble for the Past offers a fascinating 
new look at the modern invention of the ancient world.

Contents

   A Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Dating

   Map: The Ottoman Empire

   Acknowledgments

Introduction: Archaeology and Empire -- Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, 
and Edhem Eldem

Interlude: A Late Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Painting and Novella

Indigenous Archaeologies in Ottoman Greece -- Yannis Hamilakis

"An Inconsiderate Love of the Arts": The Spoils of Greek Antiquities, 
1780-1820 -- George Tolias

Interlude: An Egyptian Historian Observes British Archaeologists

The Layard Enterprise: Victorian Archaeology and Informal Imperialism in 
Mesopotamia -- Shawn Malley

Untold Tales of Mesopotamian Discovery -- Zainab Bahrani

Archaeological Travels in Greece and Asia Minor: On the Good Use of 
Ruins in Nineteenth-Century France -- Sophie Basch

The Rediscovery of Constantinople and the Beginnings of Byzantine 
Archaeology: A Historiographic Survey -- Robert Ousterhout

Ernest Renan's Expedition to Phoenicia -- Henry Laurens

Interlude: Osman Hamdi and Ernest Renan

The Venus de Milo: Genesis of a Modern Myth -- Philippe Jockey

The "Rediscovery" of Baalbek: A Metaphor for Empire in the Nineteenth 
Century -- Ussama Makdisi

 From Blissful Indifference to Anguished Concern: Ottoman Perceptions of 
Antiquities, 1799-1869 -- Edhem Eldem

Archaeology and Cultural Politics: Ottoman-Austrian Relations -- Hubert 
Szemethy

Interlude: The Stories Behind a Letter

Ernst Herzfeld and the Excavations at Samarra -- Filiz Çakır Phillip

A Fin-de-Siècle Reconnaissance of Seljuk Anatolia: Friedrich Sarre and 
His Reise in Kleinasien -- Oya Pancaroğlu

Interlude: Halil Edhem on the Museum of Pious Foundations

 From Mausoleum to Museum: Resurrecting Antiquity for Ottoman Modernity 
-- Wendy M. K. Shaw

Defining Empire's Patrimony: Late Ottoman Perceptions of Antiquities -- 
Zeynep Çelik

Interlude: The Museum as a Civic Tool

Contributors

Selected Bibliography

Index

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