
The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?
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Table of Contents
Contributors | p. xi |
Preface to the Second Edition | p. xv |
Foreword | p. xviii |
Preface to the First Edition | p. xxi |
Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
Introduction A Philosophical Perspective on the Ethics and Resolution of Cultural Properties Issues | p. 1 |
Ancestral Sites, Shrines, and Graves: Native American Perspectives on the Ethics of Collecting Cultural Properties | p. 27 |
Profiteers and Public Archaeology: Antiquities Trafficking in Arkansas | p. 39 |
The Battle for the Maya Past: the Effects of International Looting and Collecting in Belize | p. 51 |
Considering the Perspective of the Victim: the Antiquities of Nepal | p. 61 |
The Murals of Teotihuacán: a Case Study of Negotiated Restitution | p. 73 |
The Cultural Stewardship Question: Looking for Options | p. 91 |
The Museum and Cultural Property: the Transformation of Institutional Ethics | p. 93 |
Collecting Pre-Columbian Art | p. 103 |
International Control Efforts: Are There Any Good Solutions? | p. 117 |
U.S. Implementation of the Unesco Cultural Property Convention | p. 129 |
Cultural Property Regulations: Perceptions and Conditions | p. 153 |
From the Collector's Perspective: the Legality of Importing Pre-Columbian Art and Artifacts | p. 155 |
What is "Stolen"? the Mcclain Case Revisited | p. 177 |
The Need for Enforcing Regulations on the International Art Trade | p. 185 |
Cultural Property and National Sovereignty | p. 199 |
Working Out Differences: Round Table and Conclusion | p. 215 |
Highlights of a Round Table Discussion and Some Recent Developments in the Cultural Heritage Arena | p. 217 |
Conclusion: Working Together to Preserve Our Past | p. 243 |
Epilogue | p. 253 |
Some Domestic and International Laws and Regulations and Their Enforcers | p. 275 |
Codes of Ethics | p. 283 |
Some Organizations and Resources Related to Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Issues | p. 287 |
Index | p. 293 |
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