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Religion and Politics in the British Museum

Thursday, 30 April 2009

By the Rivers of Babylon

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  • Panel discussion on BBC News
  • The Independent
  • The Guardian
  • Telegraph
  • Socialist Worker

3 museums collaborate

  • http://mini-site.louvre.fr/babylone/FR/html/1.4.2.html
  • Babylon: Myth & Truth in Berlin
  • Babylon in Paris
  • Babylon: Myth & Reality at the British Museum

Babylon: Religion and politics in the British Museum

As we can see from the title of the London exhibition not all we know about this region is solid. By taking some of the familiar elements, and looking at what we think we know about Babylon, such as the Tower of Babel and stories surrounding Nebudchanezzar, this report aims to question whether it possible to narrate an honest account without rendering quiet the voices all the people who have contributed to the building of the world we live in whilst at the same time appreciating that what we are doing is a merely another (re)construction. 

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  • Cultural Vandalism
  • Myth and Nationalism

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More Bibliography

Finkel, L. and Seymour, M.J. eds. (2008) Babylon: Myth and Reality, The British Museum Press: London

Swain, H. (2007) An Introduction to Museum Archaeology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge

Strathern, M. ed. (1995) Shifting contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge. Routledge: London

Bottomore, T. et al (eds) (1983) A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Blackwell: Oxford

Museum, B. (2007) The British Museum Souvenir Guide. The British Museum Press: London

Kirschenblatt-Gimblatt, B. (2006) World heritage and cultural economics. In Karp, L (ed.) Museum Frictions, pp 161-202. Durham: Duke University Press.

(Re)Constructing Archaeology.

Morris, F. (ed) (2008) Tate Modern: The Handbook, Tate Publishing: London

Foucault, M. (1979) Discipline and Punish:The Birth of the Prison Penguin:London.

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