UID:
almafu_9961311573302883
Format:
1 online resource (542 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-19-196016-0
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0-19-269412-X
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0-19-269413-8
Series Statement:
Cultural heritage law and policy
Content:
'Confronting Colonial Objects' traces recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns in colonial history through the life story of cultural objects. It develops a theory based on justice, ethics, and human rights that confronts ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enables normative transformation.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023.
,
Confronting Colonial Heritage: Introducing Entanglements, Continuities, and Transformations -- Expanding Empire: Curiosity, Power, and Prestige -- Collecting Mania, Racial Science, and Cultural Conversion through Forcible Expeditions -- The Scramble for Cultural Colonial Objects: Other Types of Acquisition -- Collecting Humanity: Commodification, Trophy Hunting, and Bio-colonialism -- Law's Complicity in Cultural Takings and Colonial Violence: Double Standards, Discursive Silencing, and Social Transformation -- Colonial and Post-colonial Continuities in Culture Heritage Protection: Narratives and Counter-narratives -- Acknowledging the Past, Righting the Future: Changing Ethical and Legal Frames -- Beyond to Return or Not to Return: Towards Relational Cultural Justice.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192868121
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780192868121.001.0001
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