Alexandra Bounia: 2 books
The Political Museum
Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. In these settings, museums can be extraordinarily influential for shaping identity and collective memory and for peace building. Using key Cypriote archaeological, historical,...
The Nature of Classical Collecting
Collectors and Collections, 100 BCE – 100 CE
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The phenomenon of collecting as a systematic activity undertaken for symbolic rather than actual needs, is traditionally taken to originate in the middle of the fifteenth century, when the first cabinets of curiosities appear in Italy. Yet it is clear that the practice of collecting started long before...