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Cultural property and contested ownership : the trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution / edited by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Lyndel V. Prott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: xiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138188839
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.69 HAU
Contents:
Introduction : changing concepts of ownership, culture and property / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Lyndel V. Prott -- Destruction and plunder of Cambodian cultural heritage and their consequences / Keiko Miura -- Cambodia's struggle to protect its movable cultural property and Thailand / Alper Tasdelen -- Looted, trafficked, donated, and returned : the twisted tracks of Cambodian antiquities / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- Struggles over historic shipwrecks in Indonesia : economic versus preservation interests / Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz -- Faked biographies : the remake of antiquities and their sale on the art market / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Sophorn Kim -- The Benin treasures : difficult legacy and contested heritage / Barbara Plankensteiner -- Pre-Columbian heritage in contestation : the implementation of the UNESCO 1970 convention on trial in Germany / Anne Splettstösser -- Return logistics : repatriation business : managing the return of ancestral remains to New Zealand / Sarah Fründt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : changing concepts of ownership, culture and property / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Lyndel V. Prott -- Destruction and plunder of Cambodian cultural heritage and their consequences / Keiko Miura -- Cambodia's struggle to protect its movable cultural property and Thailand / Alper Tasdelen -- Looted, trafficked, donated, and returned : the twisted tracks of Cambodian antiquities / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- Struggles over historic shipwrecks in Indonesia : economic versus preservation interests / Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz -- Faked biographies : the remake of antiquities and their sale on the art market / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Sophorn Kim -- The Benin treasures : difficult legacy and contested heritage / Barbara Plankensteiner -- Pre-Columbian heritage in contestation : the implementation of the UNESCO 1970 convention on trial in Germany / Anne Splettstösser -- Return logistics : repatriation business : managing the return of ancestral remains to New Zealand / Sarah Fründt.

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