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  • AR 342/742 Archaeology in the Holy Land
  • AR 480/780 – Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Ethics, and the Law
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11/14: The Long View

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  • John Burns, “The Great Buddhas Wait, Knowing Nothing Lasts,” NY Times 10/18/1996.
  • Roger Cohen, “Return to Bamiyan,” NY Times 10/29/2007.
  • David Lowenthal, “Material Preservation and Its Alternatives,” Perspecta 25 (1989), pp. 67-77.
  • David Lowenthal, “ ‘Trojan forebears,’ ‘peerless relics’: the rhetoric of heritage claims,” in Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past, I. Hodder, M. Shanks, A. Alexandri, V. Buchli, J. Carman, J. Last, and G. Lucas, eds. (Routledge 1995), pp. 125-30.
  • Gavin Lucas, “Modern Disturbances: On the Ambiguities of Archaeology,” Modernism/modernity 11 (2004), pp. 109-120
  • Irene Winter, “Babylonian Archaeologists of the(ir) Mesopotamian Past,” Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, P. Matthiae, A. Enea, L. Peyronel, and F. Pinnock, eds. (Università degli studi de Roma, Roma 2000), pp. 1785-98.
  • 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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        • Iranian cultural property: court cases and updates
        • Thai-Cambodia temple dispute
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