Whose Culture ?: The Promise of Museums And The Debate Over Antiquities
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Edited By James Cuno
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Princeton, Oxford
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: Princeton University Press
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, 2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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Xii,220 p.
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: ill.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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To shape the citizens of "that great city, the world" / Neil MacGregor -- "And what do you propose should be done with those objects?" / Philippe de Montebello -- Whose culture is it? / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Antiquities and the importance - and limitations - of archaeological contexts / James C.Y. Watt -- Archaeologists, collectors, and museums / Sir John Boardman -- Censoring knowledge : the case for the publication of unprovenanced cuneiform tablets / David J. Owen -- Exhibiting indigenous heritage in the age of cultural property / Michael F. Brown -- Heritage and national treasures / Derek Gillman -- Nation and the object / John Henry Merryman
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects
Museum exhibits -- Moral and ethical aspects
Cultural property -- Protection
Cultural property -- Repatriation
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Social aspects
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Moral and ethical aspects