1st Edition
Restitution of Cultural Property and the Law Complex Colonial Histories
By Christa Roodt
Copyright 2025
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book adopts a novel approach to the social question of restitution and repatriation of sacred cultural property and heritage acquired unethically during the colonial era. It uses an approach premised on better integration of law, ethics, history, anthropology, and provenance research.
To bridge the material and the sacred world in adjudication and policy formulation, a common definition of... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Mimetic Desire and Restitution
3. Overcoming Fundamental Fragmentation in the Law
Biography
Christa Roodt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. She specialises in the provenance and restitution of cultural heritage and acts as consultant on projects designed to achieve a more appropriate international regime for the protection and return of cultural objects removed from colonial, archaeological, and Nazi-era contexts. She is a serving member of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.
