Antiquity Belongs to the World

Autor/in	Cuno, James
Titel	Antiquity Belongs to the World
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 43, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Archaeology; Universities; Museums; Ownership; Laws; Nationalism; Iraq; Peru + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Archäologie; University; Universität; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Eigentum; Law; Recht; Nationalismus; Irak
Abstract	Increasingly over the 20th century, nations, many of them newly formed as the result of the dissolution of empires, instituted those kinds of cultural-property laws and signed bilateral treaties and international conventions as means of strengthening them. Still the looting of archaeological sites continues. Iraq is but one example. Wherever poverty, social alienation, and political chaos exist (often as a result of warfare, civil strife, or simply a failed state), lawless behavior flourishes. When those factors exist in a country with archaeological sites and artifacts, illegal trafficking in antiquities occurs. Laws intended to retain antiquities within the jurisdiction of the modern nation-state concentrate the risk to antiquities by keeping them in one place. In this article, the author argues that nationalist cultural-property laws are political instruments. The political motives that inform them can also, as in the case of the Peru-Yale dispute, inspire calls for the repatriation of ancient artifacts removed before the laws came into being. The promise of research and teaching, scholarly exchanges, joint excavations, and collaborations on museum building hang in the balance. The imposition of nationalist, retentionist cultural-property laws has resulted only in putting their ancient heritage at risk and encouraging its misuse for political gain. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10