Who owns antiquity? : museums and the battle over our ancient heritage /
By: Cuno, James.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008Description: xxxvii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691148106 (pbk.); 9780691137124; 0691148104 (pbk.).Subject(s): Museums -- Acquisitions -- Philosophy | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Philosophy | Museums -- Collection management -- International cooperation | Cultural property | Cultural property -- RepatriationDDC classification: 069.5Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 069.5 CUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0091221 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The crux of the matter -- Political matters -- More political matters -- The Turkish question -- The Chinese question -- Identity matters -- Epilogue.
Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found has proven to be a controversial issue in the art world today. In this book, James Cuno argues that antiquities are the cultural property of all humankind and not that of a particular modern nation-state.