Confronting colonial objects : : histories, legalities, and access to culture / / Carsten Stahn.

• Superior document: Cultural heritage law and policy
• VerfasserIn: Stahn, Carsten, 1971-
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural heritage law and policy.; Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (542 pages)
• Notes: Also issued in print: 2023.

'Confronting Colonial Objects' traces recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns in colonial history through the life story of cultural objects. It develops a theory based on justice, ethics, and human rights that confronts ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enables normative transformation.

Table of Contents

Confronting Colonial Heritage: Introducing Entanglements, Continuities, and Transformations -- Expanding Empire: Curiosity, Power, and Prestige -- Collecting Mania, Racial Science, and Cultural Conversion through Forcible Expeditions -- The Scramble for Cultural Colonial Objects: Other Types of Acquisition -- Collecting Humanity: Commodification, Trophy Hunting, and Bio-colonialism -- Law's Complicity in Cultural Takings and Colonial Violence: Double Standards, Discursive Silencing, and Social Transformation -- Colonial and Post-colonial Continuities in Culture Heritage Protection: Narratives and Counter-narratives -- Acknowledging the Past, Righting the Future: Changing Ethical and Legal Frames -- Beyond to Return or Not to Return: Towards Relational Cultural Justice.