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11/28: What’s to be done?

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  • Holland Cotter, “Who Owns Art?” NY Times 3/29/2006.
  • Elisabetta Povoledo, “Returning Stolen Art: No Easy Answers,” NY Times 10/27/2007.
  • Patty Gerstenblith, “Collecting Antiquities in the International Market: Philosophy, Law, and Heritage,” Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2007 (Walnut Creek CA), pp. 139-66.
  • Oliver Leaman, “Who Guards the guardians?” in C. Scarre and G. Scarre, eds. The Ethics of Archaeology (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2006), pp. 32-45.
  • Atle Omland, “The ethics of the World Heritage concept,” in C. Scarre and G. Scarre, eds. The Ethics of Archaeology (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2006), pp. 242-259.

  • 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
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        • Iranian cultural property: court cases and updates
        • Thai-Cambodia temple dispute
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