Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology

by Brodie,Neil

• ISBN13: 9780415233880
• ISBN10: 0415233887
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. This volume highlights the negative effects of the trade on cultural heritage, but in particular it focuses upon question of legal and local responses.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	ix
Series editors' foreword	x
Preface and acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(22)
Neil Brodie
Greek vases for sale: some statistical evidence	23	(15)
Vinnie Norskov
Walking a fine line: promoting the past without selling it	38	(5)
Paula Lazrus
The concept of cultural protection in times of armed conflict: from the crusades to the new millennium	43	(66)
Patrick J. Boylan
Law and the underwater cultural heritage: a question of balancing interests	109	(28)
Sarah Dromgoole
Negotiating the future of the underwater cultural heritage	137	(25)
Patrick J. O'Keefe
Perceptions of marine artefact conservation and their relationship to destruction and theft	162	(17)
Amanda Sutherland
Metal detecting in Britain: catastrophe or compromise?	179	(6)
Peter V. Addyman
Neil Brodie
Britannia waives the rules? The licensing of archaeological material for export from the UK	185	(20)
Neil Brodie
Mexico's archaeological heritage: a convergence and confrontation of interests	205	(23)
Enrique Nalda
What's going on around the corner? Illegal trade of art and antiquities in Argentina	228	(7)
Daniel Schavelzon
Looting graves/buying and selling artefacts: facing reality in the US	235	(6)
Hester A. Davis
Reducing incentives for illicit trade in antiquities: the US implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention	241	(9)
Susan Keech McIntosh
The rape of Mali's only resource	250	(7)
Tereba Togola
Dealing with the dealers and tomb robbers: the realities of the archaeology of the Ghor es-Safi in Jordan	257	(11)
Konstantinos D. Politis
Plunder of cultural and art treasures -- the Indian experience	268	(12)
S.K. Pachauri
Point, counterpoint	280	(21)
Kathryn Walker Tubb
Index	301