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  • AR 342/742 Archaeology in the Holy Land
  • AR 480/780 – Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Ethics, and the Law
  • Site and Subject Links

11/21: Dead and gone?

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  • Kate Galbraith, “New Homes Confront Old Burial Grounds,” NY Times 6/17/2007.
  • Elaine Sciolino, “French Dispute Whether Maori Head is Body Part or Art,” NY Times 10/26/2007.
  • Elisabeth Bumiller, “Seizing a Last Chance to Find Lost G.I.’s as WWII Memories Fade,” NY Times 9/6/09.
  • Michael Slackman, “In a New Age, Bahrain Struggles to Honor the Dead While Serving the Living,” NY Times 9/17/2009.
  • Jim Dwyer, “From Bones of Immigrants, Stories of Pain,” NY Times 10/14/2009.
  • R. H. McGuire, “The Sanctity of the Grave: White Concepts and American Indian Beliefs” in Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions, R. Layton ed. (Unwin Hyman, London: 1989), pp. 167-84.
  • J. Jeremy Wisnewski, “What We Owe the Dead,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (2009), pp. 54-70.
  • 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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      • Loot, Plunder, and Stolen Goods
      • U.S. Law and International Treaties
      • World Heritage Sites, Claims and Issues
        • Iranian cultural property: court cases and updates
        • Thai-Cambodia temple dispute
    • Papers and Weekly Reading Reports
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