The ethics of collecting cultural property : whose culture? whose property? / edited by Phyllis Mauch Messenger ; foreword by Brian Fagan.
"The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property explores the ethical, legal, and intellectual issues related to excavating, selling, collecting, and owning cultural artifacts. Twenty-two contributors, representing archaeology, law, museum administration, art history, and philosophy, suggest how the...
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
1999.
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Edition: | Second edition, updated and enlarged. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Perspectives of the "victims" : case studies
- A philosophical perspective on the ethics and resolution of cultural property issues / Karen J. Warren
- Ancestral sites, shrines, and graves : Native American perspectives on the ethics of collecting cultural properties / Deborah L. Nichols, Anthony L. Klesert, Roger Anyon
- Profiteers and public archaeology : antiquities trafficking in Arkansas / Ann M. Early
- The battle for the Maya past : the effects of international looting and collecting in Belize / David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham
- Considering the perspective of the victim : the antiquities of Nepal / David Sassoon
- The murals of Teotihaucán : a case study of negotiated restitution / Thomas K. Selignam
- Commentary / Cristy Hohman-Caine
- pt. 2. The cultural stewardship question : looking for options
- The museum and cultural property : the transformation of institutional ethics / Alan Shestack
- Collecting pre-Columbian art / Gillett G. Griffin
- International control efforts : are there any good solutions? / Ellen Herscher
- U.S. implementation of the UNESCO Cultural Property Convention / Ann Guthrie Hingston
- Commentary / Orrin C. Shane, III
- pt. 3. Cultural property regulations : perceptions and conditions
- From the collector's perspective : the legality of importing pre-Columbian art and artifacts / Leo J. Harris
- what is "stolen"? : the McClain case revisited / Douglas C. Ewing
- The need for enforcing regulations on the international art trade / Charles S. Koczka
- Cultural property and national sovereignty / Jaime Litvak King
- Commentary / Karen J. Warren
- pt. 4. Working out differences : round table and conclusion
- Highlights of a round table discussion and some recent developments in the cultural heritage arena / Phyllis Mauch Messenger
- Conclusion : working together to preserve our past / George E. Stuart
- Epilogue / Phyllis Mauch Messenger
- Appendix 1. Some domestic and international laws and regulations and their enforcers
- 2. Codes of ethics
- 3. Some organizations and resources related to archaeology and culutral heritage issues.