Whose Culture? : : The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities /

Whose Culture? : : The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities / / ed. by James Cuno.

The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Appiah, Kwame Anthony,
Boardman, John,
Brown, Michael F.,
Cuno, James,
Gillman, Derek,
MacGregor, Neil,
Merryman, John Henry,
Montebello, Philippe de,
Owen, David I.,
Watt, James C. Y.,
HerausgeberIn:
Cuno, James,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2009
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 44 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Value of Museums
  • To Shape the Citizens of “That Great City, the World”
  • “And What Do You Propose Should Be Done with Those Objects?”
  • Whose Culture Is It?
  • Part Two. The Value of Antiquities
  • Antiquities and the Importance—and Limitations—of Archaeological Contexts
  • Archaeologists, Collectors, and Museums
  • Censoring Knowledge: The Case for the Publication of Unprovenanced Cuneiform Tablets
  • Part Three. Museums, Antiquities, and Cultural Property
  • Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property
  • Heritage and National Treasures
  • The Nation and the Object
  • Select Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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