The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property by Anderson, Jane L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements List of contributors 1. Introduction

The many faces of cultural property Genealogies of cultural property Cultural property as political theory The nation and other collectives Codifying cultural property From the Hague to UNESCO Cultural property and intellectual property Cultural property and the market Disciplinary engagements as sites of meaning The museum life of cultural property Cultural property into the future Acknowledgements Bibliography

PART I: Legal ordering of cultural property

2. Heritage vs. property: Contrasting regimes and rationalities in the patrimonial field

Nominalism Cultural property as a technology of sovereignty Cultural heritage as a technology of reformation Different patrimonialities Bibliography

3. The criminalisation of the illicit trade in cultural property

Introduction Lessons from the 1930s and Second World War Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria: illicit traffic in the twenty-first century Conclusion Notes Bibliography

4. Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention by the United States and other market nations

Introduction Implementation by the United States Implementation by other market countries Conclusion Notes Bibliography

5. Protection not prevention: The failure of public policy to prevent the looting and illegal trade of cultural property from the MENA region (19902015)

Introduction Cultural property protection policy failure Cultural property protection policy instruments and actions The criminalization of the illegal trade in cultural property The securitization of the illegal trade in cultural objects The endgame: Daesh and the destruction of cultural property Conclusion: Policy and policy making Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography

6. A paradox of cultural property: NAGPRA and (dis)possession

NAGPRA: A national attempt to address Indigenous cultural dispossession NAGPRA in action Key concepts in the law Legislative history: Negotiation and compromise Indigenous perspectives Conclusion Notes Bibliography

PART II: Museums, archives and communities

7. NAGPRA, CUI and institutional will

Introduction A brief overview of NAGPRA Defining “CUI” ancestors Institutional will and retentive philosophy: Examples from Indian Country Impediments and best practices Concluding remarks Notes Bibliography

8. Betting on the raven: Ethical relationality and Nuxalk cultural property

Section one: The wager of the Nuxalk raven forehead mask Changing relations between Indigenous people and museums Section two: Resetting relations Postscript Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Personal communications

9. Whose story is this? Complexities and complicities of using archival footage

Introduction Commonwealth film Stage 1: Self-determination and rights in representation Retake: Engaging in repatriaton How to mobilize an archive Is there a film? Making the film: Collaboration in principle and practice Circulation: Authors and other owners Screenings Memories Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Filmography

10. The archive of the archive: The secret history of the Laura Boulton Collection

Introduction The archive of the archive: Documenting the documentarians The courtship of Laura Boulton After 1965: Determining the meaning of ownership After Boulton: The Indiana Agreement and the end of ownership Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

11. Touching the intangible: Reconsidering material culture in the realm of Indigenous cultural property research

Introduction Heritage as material bound When cultural property is immaterial Challenges associated with Indigenous cultural property Good practices with (other people’s) cultural property Not unwrapping the sacred bundle Conclusions Acknowledgements Notes References

PART III: Local histories

12. On the nature of Patrimonio: “Cultural property” in Mexican contexts

Introduction How pre-Hispanic remains became the “cultural” property of the nation Who owns Mexico’s ancient past? Making patrimonio in Coatlinchan Material ecologies of patrimonio Conclusions Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography

13. Making and unmaking heritage value in China

Making heritage value Making, remaking and collecting material heritage Collecting practice as self-cultivation The history of collecting and the concept of wenwu The art market and private museum boom in contemporary China Collecting practices as a symbol of taste and class in contemporary China Collection, collecting and collectors Concluding remarks Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography

14. Object movement: UNESCO, language, and the exchange of Middle Eastern artifacts

The language of UNESCO and movement Object movement: Bab adh Dhra’, Jordan To move or not to move: Cultural internationalists and cultural nationalists How objects move Object movement: The legal market for antiquities in Israel Moving objects, language, and UNESCO Acknowledgements Bibliography

15. Cultures of property: African cultures in intellectual and cultural property regimes

Introduction Colonial orders in the postcolonial age The intellectual terra nullius Global economic power in the age of information Cultural property: Alternative or backwater? Cultures of property in Ghanaian intellectual and cultural property laws and policies Conclusion Note Bibliography

PART IV: Cultural property beyond the state

16. Culture as a flexible concept for the legitimation of policies in the European Union

Introduction Dimensions of legitimation Between unity and diversity Cooperation and mutual understanding Common heritage as enabler of national cultural sovereignty Culture and economic policies Culture as “soft power” Conclusion: Flexible culture, cultural property, and the EU Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography

17. The Bible as cultural property? A cautionary tale

Introduction Many types of “traditional knowledge” or only one? The danger of an authorized version Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

18. Being pre-Indigenous: Kin accountability beyond tradition

Being Native Being Māori Being Iwi Being Indigenous Being pre-Indigenous Acknowledgements Note Bibliography

19. Frontiers of cultural property in the global south

Introduction: Political economies and political ecologies of cultural properties Neoliberal governmentalities and cultural communities Property and personhood at the intersection of globalization and autonomy Environmental conservation and the “biocultural turn” in heritage management Protecting possessive attachments: Legal pluralism and new ontologies of property Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography

PART V: New and experimental forms of cultural property

20. Who owns yoga?: Transforming traditions as cultural property

Yoga, in the contemporary Yoga as India’s cultural property Whose yoga? “Not Hindu enough” Whose yoga? “Too Hindu for school” Who owns yoga’s copyright? Yoga and the art of modern transformations Notes References

21. Bones, documents and DNA: Cultural property at the margins of the law

Images of recuperation: photographs of the Spanish historical memory movement Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography

22. Collaborative encounters in digital cultural property: Tracing temporal relationships of context and locality

Introduction Collaborative encounters Temporality and spirituality in collaboration: The Shalako Film Revisited Collaborative formations of control and ownership of digital cultural property Reciprocal and informed sharing of cultural property Conclusion: The collaborative transit of cultural property Acknowledgements Bibliography

23. Animating language: Continuing intergenerational Indigenous language knowledge

Introduction Importance of learning Indigenous languages Monash Country Lines Archive strategies for decolonization Animation language and country Connecting country and animation Conclusion Notes Bibliography

24. Ancestors for sale in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Privatising the electricity companies Māori gather to debate the issues Māori understandings of natural resources Mighty River Power in New Zealand Energy-driven relationships with Māori Kaitiakitanga in the twenty-first century Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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