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  • AR 480/780 – Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Ethics, and the Law
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10/17: Competing Priorities

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  • Barbara Crossette, “Taliban Explains Buddha Demolition,” NY Times3/19/2001.
  • Joanne Farchakh-Bajjaly, “Who Are the Looters at Archaeological Sites in Iraq?” in Antiquities Under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection After the Iraq War, Lawrence Rothfield, ed. Altamira Press, New York: 2008, pp. 49-56.
  • Gwenda Blair, “Paying with the Past,” Chicago Magazine, December 2008.
  • Travis Sills, “Judicial Conversion of Culture: Attaching Embodiments of Ancient Culture to Judgments in Civil Proceedings,” in Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2007, Sherry Hutt, ed. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek: 2007, pp. 237-256.
  • James A. Wawrzyniak Jr., “Rubin v. The Islamic Republic of Iran: A Struggle for Control of Persian Antiquities in America,” Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2008, Sherry Hutt, ed. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek: 2008, pp. 223-272.
  • Julie Hollowell, “Moral arguments on subsistence digging,” in The Ethics of Archaeology (pp. 69-93).
  • Massachusetts Court Dismisses Rubin: summary of decision
  • AR 480/780 – Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Ethics, and the Law

    • Additional Reading
      • 09/12: The issue, head-on
      • 09/26: Loot, part 1: colonialism, theft, and the market
      • 10/03: Loot, part 2: the nation-state and cultural blackmail
      • 10/17: Competing Priorities
      • 10/24: The Hague Convention and national patrimony
      • 10/31: Native Americans and NAGPRA
      • 11/07: Archaeologists and the State Department
      • 11/14: The Long View
      • 11/21: Dead and gone?
      • 11/28: What’s to be done?
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