TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appiah,Kwame Anthony
AU  - Boardman,John
AU  - Brown,Michael F.
AU  - Cuno,James
AU  - Gillman,Derek
AU  - MacGregor,Neil
AU  - Merryman,John Henry
AU  - Montebello,Philippe de
AU  - Owen,David I.
AU  - Watt,James C.Y.
TI  - Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities 
SN  - 9780691133331
AV  - AM7 .W47 2012eb
U1  - 069.5/1 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Collection and preservation
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Protection
KW  - Repatriation
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Museum exhibits
KW  - Museums
KW  - Acquisitions
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - ART / Art & Politics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Accessibility
KW  - American Journal of Archaeology
KW  - American Schools of Oriental Research
KW  - Ancient Egypt
KW  - Ancient Greece
KW  - Ancient Greek art
KW  - Archaeological context
KW  - Archaeological site
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Art Loss Register
KW  - Art museum
KW  - Arts and Crafts movement
KW  - Beijing
KW  - Benin
KW  - Burial
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Capital Museum
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Circumstantial evidence
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Collecting
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Consideration
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Country of origin
KW  - Crime
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Cultural Property (Japan)
KW  - Cultural appropriation
KW  - Cultural heritage
KW  - Cultural nationalism
KW  - Cultural property law
KW  - Curator
KW  - Elgin Marbles
KW  - Epigraphy
KW  - Euphronios Krater
KW  - Fu Hao
KW  - Funding
KW  - Iconoclasm
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Insider
KW  - Institution
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - International Council of Museums
KW  - J. Paul Getty Museum
KW  - Jews
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Kwame Anthony Appiah
KW  - Lansdowne portrait
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Legislation
KW  - Literature
KW  - Looting
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Matthew Bogdanos
KW  - Member state
KW  - Metropolitan Museum of Art
KW  - Museum
KW  - National Museum of the American Indian
KW  - National Palace Museum
KW  - National Treasure (Japan)
KW  - National treasure
KW  - Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
KW  - Neolithic
KW  - Newspaper
KW  - Ownership
KW  - Partage
KW  - Personhood
KW  - Philistinism
KW  - Private collection
KW  - Provenance
KW  - Publication
KW  - Punitive expedition
KW  - Repatriation (humans)
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Roman art
KW  - Ruler
KW  - Smithsonian Institution
KW  - Smuggling
KW  - Sophistication
KW  - State ownership
KW  - Statute
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Taliban
KW  - Tax
KW  - The Hundreds
KW  - The New York Review of Books
KW  - The New York Times
KW  - Theft
KW  - Tomb of Fu Hao
KW  - Tomb
KW  - Treaty
KW  - Tribal art
KW  - UNESCO
KW  - Urkesh
KW  - Work of art
KW  - World Heritage Site
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400833047
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400833047
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400833047/original
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