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Cultural Property and Contested Ownership: The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution book cover

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Cultural Property and Contested Ownership The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution

Edited By Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Lyndel V. Prott Copyright 2016
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages 8 Color & 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 8 Color & 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Against the backdrop of international conventions and their implementation, Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among diverging parties and their interests. Cultural artefacts, such as those kept and trafficked between art dealers, private collectors and museums, have become increasingly localized in a ‘Bermuda triangle’... Read more

Introduction: changing concepts of ownership, culture and property.
Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Lyndel V. Prott



Part I: Plunder, trafficking and return
Introduction



01) Destruction and plunder of Cambodian cultural heritage and their consequences.
Keiko Miura



02)  Cambodia’s struggle to protect its movable cultural property and Thailand.
Alper Tasdelen



03)  Looted, trafficked, donated, and returned: the twisted tracks of Cambodian antiquities.
Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin



Part II: Between profit, authenticity and ethics
Introduction



04)  Struggles over historic shipwrecks in Indonesia: economic versus preservation interests.
Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz



05)  Faked biographies. The remake of antiquities and their sale on the art market.
Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Sophorn Kim



Part III: Negotiating conditions of return
Introduction



06)  The Benin treasures: difficult legacy and contested heritage.
Barbara Plankensteiner



07)  Pre-Columbian heritage in contestation. The implementation of the UNESCO 1970 convention on trial in Germany.
Anne Splettstößer



08)  Return logistics – repatriation business. Managing the return of ancestral remains to New Zealand.
Sarah Fründt



Epilogue
Lyndel V. Prott



 



 




 

Biography

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Göttingen, Germany.





　



Lyndel V. Prott is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. She was previously Professor of Cultural Heritage Law at the　University of Sydney, Australia, and the former Director of　UNESCO’s Division of Cultural Heritage.

This book makes an important contribution in the expansive domain of cultural property. Taking the 1970 UNESCO as a very specific and important point of departure, this interdisciplinary collection opens new possibilities for understanding the complex relations between international bureaucracy and local responses in terms of decision-making, implementation and negotiation.

Jane Anderson, New York University, USA 

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