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The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? » Read Now
by Phyllis Mauch Messenger. 301 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...THE ETHICS OF COLLECTING CULTURAL PROPERTY -ii- The Ethics of Collecting. WHOSE CULTURE? Cultural Property: WHOSE PROPERTY? Second...Data The ethics of collecting cultural...
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Art Crime » Read Now
by John E. Conklin. 326 pgs.

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This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the full range of crime involving works of art: forgery, fraud, theft, smuggling, and vandalism. It is up to date, drawing on much material from the "boom years" of the art market in the 1980s and continuing up through the 1990s, and assimilating...
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This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the full range of crime involving works of art: forgery, fraud, theft, smuggling, and vandalism. It is up to date, drawing on much material from the "boom years" of the art market in the 1980s and continuing up through the 1990s, and assimilating information from a variety of sources: art magazines, newspaper accounts, and the relatively small amount of scholarship on art crime by art historians and criminologists. In addition to considering the motives of thieves, the book looks at the way art theft is socially organized: the types of thefts that are committed, the ways thieves locate art to steal and how they gain access to it, their use of insiders and fronts, and the way they launder stolen art. The relationship between art theft and organized crime, especially drug traffickers, is investigated. After looking at explanations of art vandalism and the way vandals explain their behavior, the book concludes with a consideration of policies tocurb art crime. The entire book is written in a highly entertaining way, packed with case studies of numerous crimes and stories of smuggling, grave-robbing, and skullduggery, that will appeal to a general audience as well as professionals and academics in criminology, sociology, and art history.
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Nazi Looting: The Plunder of Dutch Jewry during the Second World War (Chap. 2 "The Looting of Cultural Property") » Read Now
by Gerard Aalders, Arnold Pomerans, Erica Pomerans. 318 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Translated by Arnold Pomerans with Erica PomeransThe Nazi looting machine was notoriously efficient during the Second World War. In the Netherlands, 8.5 million citizens suffered losses estimated at 3.6 billion guilders. Approximately one-third of these losses were borne by Jews, who comprised only...
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Translated by Arnold Pomerans with Erica PomeransThe Nazi looting machine was notoriously efficient during the Second World War. In the Netherlands, 8.5 million citizens suffered losses estimated at 3.6 billion guilders. Approximately one-third of these losses were borne by Jews, who comprised only 1.6% of the total population. In todays terms, the German occupiers stripped the Jewish population of assets worth $7 billion.Nazi Looting offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch experience and demonstrates how reputable indigenous institutions acted as willing collaborators. Beginning with a survey of international law and various definitions of 'looting', the author shows how the Germans systematically robbed Dutch Jewry through a variety of means that gave the outward appearance of honest trading. Forced to sell under duress and at unreasonably low prices, few dared refuse the German on the doorstep when threatened with prison or incarceration in a camp.The plundering was total and systematic. In May 1940, a team of highly trained art historians, linguists, musicologists and literary experts arrived immediately behind the victorious German troops to catalogue the vast collections for Hitler. From 1941, Jews were compelled to deposit all their money into a bank called Lippmann, Rosenthal Co. The name of the bank itself was a cynical ploy since it was taken from a respected, Jewish-owned Amsterdam bank and presented as a new branch. This bank, however, simply channelled money into the Third Reich with the help of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, insurance brokers and other well-established Dutch banks. Once the Jews were deported, their houses were emptied and the contents used to re-furnish bombed out areas of the Reich. In common with many other formerly Nazi-occupied countries in Europe, the Netherlands has been unable to retrieve many of its pre-war assets. More than fifty years after the wars end, 20% of its most important pre-war museum exhibits and approximately 80% of the less important works remain untraced. Painstakingly researched, Nazi Looting exposes a chillingly calculating and brutally destructive process that reverberates to this day.
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Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property » Read Now
by Robert Layton, Peter G. Stone, Julian Thomas. 333 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

In 1991 the mosque at Ayodhya in India was demolished by Hindu fundamentalists who claim that it stood on the birthplace of a legendary Hindu hero. During recent conflicts in former Yugoslavia, ethnic groups destroyed mosques and churches to eliminate evidence of long-term settlement by other...
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In 1991 the mosque at Ayodhya in India was demolished by Hindu fundamentalists who claim that it stood on the birthplace of a legendary Hindu hero. During recent conflicts in former Yugoslavia, ethnic groups destroyed mosques and churches to eliminate evidence of long-term settlement by other communities. Over successive centuries, however, a single building in Cordoba functioned as a mosque, a church and a synagogue. The Roman Emperor Diocletian's Palace in Split is occupied today by shops and residential apartments. What circumstances have lead to the survival and reinterpretation of some monuments, but the destruction of others?This work asks whether the idea of world heritage is an essential mechanism for the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage, or whether it subjugates a diversity of cultural traditions to specifically Western ideas. How far is it acceptable for one group of people to comment upon, or intercede in, the way in which another community treats the remains which it claims as its own? What are the responsibilities of multinational corporations and non-governmental organisations operating in the Developing World? Who actually owns the past: the landowner, indigenous people, the State or humankind?
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Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy (Chap. Nine "Cultural Rights and Wrongs: Uses of the Concept of Property") » Read Now
by Katherine Verdery, Caroline Humphrey. 324 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata...
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become objects and therefore propertized, and what are the social, economic, and ethical considerations for such transformations?Addressing these hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Question interrogates the very concept of property and what is happening to it in the contemporary world, in case studies ranging from Romania to Kazakhstan, Africa to North America. The book examines not only the changing character of the property concept, but also its ideological foundations and political usages. Authors address bio-transactions, music copyright, cyberspace, oil prospecting, debates over privatization of land and factories, and dilemmas arising with new forms of ownership of businesses.Offering a fresh perspective on contemporary economic transformation, this volume is a long overdue investigation of the power of the private property concept, as well as an exploration of how the global economy may be subtly, even invisibly, changing what property means and how we relate to it.
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Collections Management (Part 2 "Acquisitions and Protecting Cultural Property") » Read Now
by Anne Fahy. 304 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

Collections Management brings together leading recent papers exploring some of the major issues affecting collections management.Providing information about initiatives and issues for anyone involved in collections management, Anne Fahy's excellent book identifies the main issues relating to...
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Collections Management brings together leading recent papers exploring some of the major issues affecting collections management.Providing information about initiatives and issues for anyone involved in collections management, Anne Fahy's excellent book identifies the main issues relating to collecting and disposal of collections and discusses why museums should develop appropriate documentation systems.Examining the status of research within museums, the various sources of advice relating to security and addresses the basics of insurance and indemnity, Collections Management is an invaluable and very practical introduction to this topic for students of museum studies and museum professionals.
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International Law in the Post-Cold War World: Essays in Memory of Li Haopei (Chap. 7 "A New Area of International Law: the Protection of Maritime Cultural Property") » Read Now
by Sienho Yee, Wang Tieya. 530 pgs.

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Centering on the theme of 'progressiveness', this powerful volume offers important new perspectives on the history, theory and practice of international law. Covering topics of great contemporary relevance such as the use of force, human rights and sovereignty, this book is of essential interest to lawyers, historians and political scientists.
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Claims for the Repatriation of Cultural Property: Prospects for a Managed Antiquities Market, in Law and Policy in International Business » Read Now
by William G. Pearlstein. 28 pgs.

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...Claims for the repatriation of cultural property: prospects for a managed antiquities...repatriation" of an item of cultural property(3) that has either been...
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Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology (Chap. 3: "The Concept of Cultural Protection in Times of Armed Conflict: from the Crusades to the New Millennium") » Read Now
by Neil Brodie, Kathryn Walker Tubb. 308 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international 'antiquities' market. Objects are...
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The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international 'antiquities' market. Objects are excavated without record, smuggled across borders and sold for exorbitant prices in the salesrooms of Europe and North America. In some countries this looting has now reached such a scale as to threaten the very survival of their archaeological and cultural heritage.This volume highlights the deleterious effects of the trade on cultural heritage, but in particular it focuses upon questions of legal and local responses: How can people become involved in the preservation of their past and what, in economic terms, are the costs and benefits? Are international conventions or export restrictions effective in diminishing the volume of the trade and the scale of its associated destruction?
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The Innocent Buyer of Art Looted during World War II, in Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law » Read Now
by Michelle I. Turner. 36 pgs.

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...them as reparations for its cultural property losses under the German occupation...the destruction of Russian cultural property.(65) Thousands of artworks...the massive...
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The Case against Statutes of Limitations for Stolen Art, in Yale Law Journal » Read Now
by Steven A. Bibas. 48 pgs.

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...buying of stolen art. (8.) The Cultural Property Implementation Act already...Illegal Import a Export of Cultural Property: A Study of Relevant Values...the International...
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Conserving Heritage: Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights, in UN Chronicle » Read Now
by John E. Conklin. 2 pgs.

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...history of injustice towards the intellectual and cultural property rights of indigenous people. One challenge...people realize their rights in both areas. Cultural...
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Collecting Culture: Crimes and Criticism, in American Literary History » Read Now
by Elazar Barkan. 18 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...regarding the disposition of cultural property or patrimony, ranging from...large body of publications on cultural property and heritage in legal and...last decade, that...
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Two Ways of Thinking About Cultural Property, in American Journal of International Law » Read Now
by John Henry Merryman. 23 pgs.

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...TWO WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT CULTURAL PROPERTY By John Henry Merryman * One way of thinking about cultural property -- i.e., objects of artistic...part of a work in progress...
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A Chaotic Palette: Conflict of Laws in Litigation between Original Owners and Good-Faith Purchasers of Stolen Art, in Duke Law Journal » Read Now
by Patricia Youngblood Reyhan. 91 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...factors: one economic, one cultural, and one legal. First...to recover personal property.(41) Of the two, replevin...of custody of stolen cultural properties who would...is...