Managing Egypt's Cultural Heritage ─ Proceedings of the First Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation Conference On: Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management

The series shifts emphasis from finding, digging up, interpreting and displaying archaeological artifacts, to protecting the cultural heritage that such artifacts represent. Specialists in the field begin with Egypt, covering periods ranging from the Predynastic to the Coptic and Islamic. Among their topics are Arabic transliteration of ancient Egyptian, from a garbage dumping place to a local heritage, a market-oriented approach to commercializing the Egyptian Museum, Egyptian baladi dance as a contested tradition, the role of archaeological site management in Luxor's Valley of the Kings, salt damage at the Osireion in Abydos, management strategies for ancient human remains, and field conservation techniques at Kafr Hassan Dawood. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)