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Cultural Property and Contested Ownership - The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution (Paperback)
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Cultural Property and Contested Ownership - The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution (Paperback)
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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.
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