Archaeologists, tourists, interpreters : exploring Egypt and the Near East in the late 19th - early 20th centuries
| 1. Verfasser: |
Mairs, Rachel
, [VerfasserIn]
Muratov, Maya , [VerfasserIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xii, 147 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Bloomsbury Egyptology
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: interpreting the Orient
- Mediating language and culture
- Dragomans and tourists
- The profession of dragoman
- Innocents abroad
- Managing clients
- Learning Arabic
- Archaeologists in the field
- Flinders Petrie in Egypt and Palestine
- T. E. Lawrence in Egypt and Syria
- Sir Leonard Woolley
- Max Mallowan and Agatha Christie
- Americans in the "land of the Bible"
- The Wolfe expedition
- The Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania 1888-90: first and second campaigns
- Daniel Z. Noorian: the 'afterlife' of an interpreter
- Solomon Negima: a dragoman and his clients
- The testimonial book of dragoman Solomon N. Negima
- Interpreter on the Nile
- Dragoman in Palestine
- Oxford to Palestine and alone through Syria
- Floyd House
- Conclusion.
