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Title Cultural property and contested ownership : the trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution / edited by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Lyndel V. Prott.
Publisher London : Routledge, 2016.


Status Loan Type Location Shelf-mark
 In Library  Standard  Library Level 8 Annexe  Archaeology A600 CUL2  
 In Library  1 week  Library Level 8 Annexe  Archaeology A600 CUL2 c.2

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Description xiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781138188839 hardback
1138188832 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Changing concepts of ownership, culture and property / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Lyndel V. Prott -- Destruction and plunder of Cambodian cultural heritage and their consequences / Keiko Miura -- Cambodia's struggle to protect its movable cultural property and Thailand / Alper Tasdelen -- Looted, trafficked, donated, and returned : the twisted tracks of Cambodian antiquities / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- Struggles over historic shipwrecks in Indonesia : economic versus preservation interests / Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz -- Faked biographies : the remake of antiquities and their sale on the art market / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Sophorn Kim -- The Benin treasures : difficult legacy and contested heritage / Barbara Plankensteiner -- Pre-Columbian heritage in contestation : the implementation of the UNESCO 1970 convention on trial in Germany / Anne Splettstösser -- Return logistics : repatriation business : managing the return of ancestral remains to New Zealand / Sarah Fründt.
Library Class Archaeology A600
Subject Cultural property -- Protection.
Cultural property -- Repatriation.
Archaeological thefts.
Art thefts.
Restitution.
Other Author Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta, editor.
Prott, Lyndel V., editor.

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