The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

This volume is at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of the field . The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and how it frames vital issues of national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the national archive.

Informationen zum Autor Jane Anderson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York University. Her research is focused on property law, Indigenous rights and sovereignty, colonial archives, repatriation, digital return, collaborative research, and transformative practice for social change. Haidy Geismar is Reader in Anthropology and Vice Dean for Strategic Projects at University College London where she co-directs the Digital Anthropology Program. Her research interests focus on digital collections, Indigenous intellectual and cultural property, critical museum studies, the anthropology of economy and exchange, material culture and materiality, and digital anthropology. Klappentext This volume is at the cutting edge of cultural property studies! bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of the field . The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and how it frames vital issues of national sovereignty! the free market! international law! and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property! from yoga to the national archive. Zusammenfassung The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, law, Indigenous studies, history, folklore studies, and policy, this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens our understanding of this issue of growing importance. This comprehensive and coherent statement of cultural property issues will be of great interest to cultural sector professionals and policy makers, as well as students and academic researchers engaged with cultural property in a variety of disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Haidy Geismar and Jane Anderson Part One Legal Orderings of Cultural Property 2. Heritage vs. Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field Valdimar Tr. Hafstein and Martin Skrydstrup 3. The Criminalisation of the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property Ana Filipa Vrdoljak 4. Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention by the United States and Other Market Nations Patty Gerstenblith 5. Protection not Prevention: The Failure of Public Policy to Prevent the Looting and Illegal Trade of Cultural Property from the Mena Region (1990-2015) Neil Brodie 6. A Paradox of Cultural Property: NAGPRA and (Dis)Possession Susan Benton Part Two Museums, Archives and Communities 7. NAGPRA, CUI and Institutional Will Rae Gould 8. Betting on the Raven: Ethical Relationality and Nuxalk Cultural Property Jennifer Kramer 9. Whose Story is This? Complexities and Complicities of Using Archival Footage Fred Myers 10. The Archive of the Archive: the Secret History of the Laura Boulton Collection Aaron Fox 11. Touching the Intangible: R...

Auteur

Jane Anderson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York University. Her research is focused on property law, Indigenous rights and sovereignty, colonial archives, repatriation, digital return, collaborative research, and transformative practice for social change.

Haidy Geismar is Reader in Anthropology and Vice Dean for Strategic Projects at University College London where she co-directs the Digital Anthropology Program. Her research interests focus on digital collections, Indigenous intellectual and cultural property, critical museum studies, the anthropology of economy and exchange, material culture and materiality, and digital anthropology.

Résumé

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, law, Indigenous studies, history, folklore studies, and policy, this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens our understanding of this issue of growing importance. This comprehensive and coherent statement of cultural property issues will be of great interest to cultural sector professionals and policy makers, as well as students and academic researchers engaged with cultural property in a variety of disciplines.

Contenu

1. Introduction
   Haidy Geismar and Jane Anderson

**Part One
Legal Orderings of Cultural Property

2. Heritage vs. Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field
   Valdimar Tr. Hafstein and Martin Skrydstrup

3. The Criminalisation of the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property
   Ana Filipa Vrdoljak

4. Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention by the United States
   and Other Market Nations
   Patty Gerstenblith

5. Protection not Prevention: The Failure of Public Policy to Prevent the Looting and Illegal Trade of Cultural Property from the Mena Region (1990-2015)
   Neil Brodie

6. A Paradox of Cultural Property: NAGPRA and (Dis)Possession
   Susan Benton

**Part Two
Museums, Archives and Communities

7. NAGPRA, CUI and Institutional Will
   Rae Gould

8. Betting on the Raven: Ethical Relationality and Nuxalk Cultural Property
   Jennifer Kramer

9. Whose Story is This? Complexities and Complicities of Using Archival Footage
   Fred Myers

10. The Archive of the Archive: the Secret History of the Laura Boulton Collection
    Aaron Fox

11. Touching the Intangible: Reconsidering Material Culture in the Realm of Indigenous Cultural Property Research
    George Nicholas

**Part Three
Local Histories

12. On the Nature of Patrimonio: Cultural Property in Mexican Contexts
    Sandra Rozental

13. Making and Unmaking Heritage Value in China
    Shu Li Wang and Michael Rowlands

14. Object Movement: UNESCO, Language and the Ex…