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

'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 entan...

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Superior document:Cultural heritage law and policy
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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.
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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.