Restitution of Cultural Property and the Law

Autorentext

Christa Roodt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. She specialises in the provenance and restitution of cultural heritage and acts as consultant on projects designed to achieve a more appropriate international regime for the protection and return of cultural objects removed from colonial, archaeological, and Nazi era contexts. She is a serving member of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.

Klappentext

This book adopts a novel approach to the social question of restitution and repatriation of sacred cultural property and heritage acquired unethically during the colonial era. It will be of interest to researchers interested in public and private international law, cultural property law, heritage law, and provenance research and practice.

Inhalt

1. Introduction

2. Mimetic Desire and Restitution

3. Overcoming Fundamental Fragmentation in the Law