The ethics of collecting cultural property : whose culture? whose property? /
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| Edition: | 2nd ed., updated and enl. |
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| Imprint: | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1999. |
| Description: | xxviii, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4296115 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction A Philosophical Perspective on the Ethics and Resolution of Cultural Properties Issues
- Chapter 1. Ancestral Sites, Shrines, and Graves: Native American Perspectives on the Ethics of Collecting Cultural Properties
- Chapter 2. Profiteers and Public Archaeology: Antiquities Trafficking in Arkansas
- Chapter 3. The Battle for the Maya Past: the Effects of International Looting and Collecting in Belize
- Chapter 4. Considering the Perspective of the Victim: the Antiquities of Nepal
- Chapter 5. The Murals of Teotihuacán: a Case Study of Negotiated Restitution
- Part II. The Cultural Stewardship Question: Looking for Options
- Chapter 6. The Museum and Cultural Property: the Transformation of Institutional Ethics
- Chapter 7. Collecting Pre-Columbian Art
- Chapter 8. International Control Efforts: Are There Any Good Solutions?
- Chapter 9. U.S. Implementation of the Unesco Cultural Property Convention
- Part III. Cultural Property Regulations: Perceptions and Conditions
- Chapter 10. From the Collector's Perspective: the Legality of Importing Pre-Columbian Art and Artifacts
- Chapter 11. What is "Stolen"? the Mcclain Case Revisited
- Chapter 12. The Need for Enforcing Regulations on the International Art Trade
- Chapter 13. Cultural Property and National Sovereignty
- Part IV. Working Out Differences: Round Table and Conclusion
- Chapter 14. Highlights of a Round Table Discussion and Some Recent Developments in the Cultural Heritage Arena
- Chapter 15. Conclusion: Working Together to Preserve Our Past
- Chapter 16. Epilogue
- Appendix I. Some Domestic and International Laws and Regulations and Their Enforcers
- Appendix II. Codes of Ethics
- Appendix III. Some Organizations and Resources Related to Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Issues
- Index
