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

ISBN-13: 9780367875473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 260 str.

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin; Lyndel V. Prott

Opis

Cultural artefacts, such as those kept and trafficked between art dealers, private collectors and museums, have increasingly become localized in a ‘Bermuda triangle’ of colonialism, looting and the art (black) market, with their re-emergence resulting in disputes about ownership and claims for return. Taking the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means

Spis treści

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

 

 

 

O autorze

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.