| Description |
xxvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 ; cm |
| Contents |
Collecting pre-Columbian art / Gillett G. Griffin -- International control efforts : are there any good solutions? / Ellen Herscher -- U.S. implementation of the UNESCO Cultural Property Convention / Ann Guthrie Hingston. Commentary : part II / Orrin C. Shane, III -- From the collector's perspective : the legality of importing pre-Columbian art and artifacts / Leo J. Harris -- What is "stolen"? : the McClain case revisited / Douglas C. Ewing -- The need for enforcing regulations on the international art trade / Charles S. Koczka -- Cultural property and national sovereignty / Jaime Litvak King. Commentary : part III / Karen J. Warren -- Highlights of a round table discussion and some recent developments in the cultural heritage arena / Phyllis Mauch Messenger |
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Conclusion : working together to preserve our past / George E. Stuart -- Some domestic and international laws and regulations and their enforcers / Charles S. Koczka |
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Foreword / Brian Fagan -- Phyllis Mauch Messenger -- A philosophical perspective on the ethics and resolution of cultural issues / Karen J. Warren -- Ancestral sites, shrines, and graves : Native American perspectives on the ethics of collecting cultural properties / Deborah L. Nichols, Anthony L. Klesert, Roger Anyon -- Profiteers and public archaeology : antiquities trafficking in Arkansas / Ann M. Early -- The battle for the Maya past : the effects of international looting and collecting in Belize / David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham -- Considering the perspective of the victim : the antiquities of Nepal / David Sassoon -- The murals of Teotihuacán : a case study of negotiated restitution / Thomas K. Seligman. Commentary : part I / Christy Hohman-Caine -- The museum and cultural property : the transformation of institutional ethics / Alan Shestack |
| Analysis |
Antiquities Collection and preservation Moral and ethical aspects |
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Cultural property Protection Moral and ethical aspects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Cultural property -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Cultural property -- Protection (International law)
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Cultural property -- Protection.
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| Author |
Messenger, Phyllis Mauch, 1950-
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| LC no. |
89036190 |
| ISBN |
0826311679 |
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0826312810 (paperback) |
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