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Whose Culture? : The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities / ed. by James Cuno.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 44 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691133331
  • 9781400833047
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.5/1 23
LOC classification:
  • AM7 .W47 2012eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Value of Museums -- To Shape the Citizens of “That Great City, the World” -- “And What Do You Propose Should Be Done with Those Objects?” -- Whose Culture Is It? -- Part Two. The Value of Antiquities -- Antiquities and the Importance—and Limitations—of Archaeological Contexts -- Archaeologists, Collectors, and Museums -- Censoring Knowledge: The Case for the Publication of Unprovenanced Cuneiform Tablets -- Part Three. Museums, Antiquities, and Cultural Property -- Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property -- Heritage and National Treasures -- The Nation and the Object -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake in this struggle--and why the museums' critics couldn't be more wrong. Source countries and archaeologists favor tough cultural property laws restricting the export of antiquities, have fought for the return of artifacts from museums worldwide, and claim the acquisition of undocumented antiquities encourages looting of archaeological sites. In Whose Culture?, leading figures from universities and museums in the United States and Britain argue that modern nation-states have at best a dubious connection with the ancient cultures they claim to represent, and that archaeology has been misused by nationalistic identity politics. They explain why exhibition is essential to responsible acquisitions, why our shared art heritage trumps nationalist agendas, why restrictive cultural property laws put antiquities at risk from unstable governments--and more. Defending the principles of art as the legacy of all humankind and museums as instruments of inquiry and tolerance, Whose Culture? brings reasoned argument to an issue that for too long has been distorted by politics and emotionalism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sir John Boardman, Michael F. Brown, Derek Gillman, Neil MacGregor, John Henry Merryman, Philippe de Montebello, David I. Owen, and James C. Y. Watt.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Value of Museums -- To Shape the Citizens of “That Great City, the World” -- “And What Do You Propose Should Be Done with Those Objects?” -- Whose Culture Is It? -- Part Two. The Value of Antiquities -- Antiquities and the Importance—and Limitations—of Archaeological Contexts -- Archaeologists, Collectors, and Museums -- Censoring Knowledge: The Case for the Publication of Unprovenanced Cuneiform Tablets -- Part Three. Museums, Antiquities, and Cultural Property -- Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property -- Heritage and National Treasures -- The Nation and the Object -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake in this struggle--and why the museums' critics couldn't be more wrong. Source countries and archaeologists favor tough cultural property laws restricting the export of antiquities, have fought for the return of artifacts from museums worldwide, and claim the acquisition of undocumented antiquities encourages looting of archaeological sites. In Whose Culture?, leading figures from universities and museums in the United States and Britain argue that modern nation-states have at best a dubious connection with the ancient cultures they claim to represent, and that archaeology has been misused by nationalistic identity politics. They explain why exhibition is essential to responsible acquisitions, why our shared art heritage trumps nationalist agendas, why restrictive cultural property laws put antiquities at risk from unstable governments--and more. Defending the principles of art as the legacy of all humankind and museums as instruments of inquiry and tolerance, Whose Culture? brings reasoned argument to an issue that for too long has been distorted by politics and emotionalism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sir John Boardman, Michael F. Brown, Derek Gillman, Neil MacGregor, John Henry Merryman, Philippe de Montebello, David I. Owen, and James C. Y. Watt.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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