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Cultural Property and Contested Ownership

The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution
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Against the backdrop of international conventions and their implementation, Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among diverging parties and their interests. Cultural artefacts, such as those kept and trafficked between art dealers, private collectors and museums, have become increasingly localized in a ‘Bermuda triangle’ of colonialism, looting and the black market, with their re-emergence resulting in disputes of ownership and claims for return. This interdisciplinary volume provides the first book-length investigation of the changing behaviours resulting from the effect of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. The collection considers the impact of the Convention on the way antiquity dealers, museums and auction houses, as well as nation states and local communities, address issues of provenance, contested ownership, and the trafficking of cultural property. The book contains a range of contributions from anthropologists, lawyers, historians and archaeologists. Individual cases are examined from a bottom-up perspective and assessed from the viewpoint of international law in the Epilogue. Each section is contextualised by an introductory chapter from the editors.

Author Biography:

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Göttingen, Germany.   Lyndel V. Prott is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. She was previously Professor of Cultural Heritage Law at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the former Director of UNESCO’s Division of Cultural Heritage.
Release date Australia
June 30th, 2016
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributors
  • Edited by Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin
  • Edited by Lyndel V Prott
Illustrations
1 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color; 33 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
260
Dimensions
156x234x20
ISBN-13
9781138188839
Product ID
25033549

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