The Market for Mesoamerica (eBook)

Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities

Cara G. Tremain, Donna Yates (Herausgeber)

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2024
232 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-7307-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Discussions on the illicit trafficking of precolonial cultural heritage itemsPre-Columbian artifacts are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these items as public, private, and digital sales proliferate. This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit movement of artifacts from Mesoamerica to museums and private collections.Informed by the fields of anthropology, economics, law, and criminology, contributors critically analyze practices of research and collecting in Central American countries. They assess the circulation of looted and forged artifacts on the art market and in museums and examine government and institutional policies aimed at fighting trafficking. They also ask if and how scholars can use materials removed from their context to interpret the past.The theft of cultural heritage items from their places of origin is a topic of intense contemporary discussion, and The Market for Mesoamerica updates our knowledge of this issue by presenting undocumented and illicit antiquities within a regional and global context. Through discussion of transparency, accountability, and ethical practice, this volume ultimately considers how antiquities can be protected and studied through effective policy and professional practice.Contributors: Cara G. Tremain | Donna Yates | Martin Berger | Allison Davis | James Doyle | Rosemary Joyce | Nancy L. Kelker | Guido Krempel | Christina Luke | Sofia Paredes Maury | Adam SellenA volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Gewicht: 472 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: 1970 UNESCO Convention • art world • Bilateral agreements • collector • Costa Rica • Cultural • Cultural property • Cultural Property Advisory Committee • Department of State • Doris Stone • Harvard University • History of Collecting • Honduras • illicit antiquities • Indians of Central and South America • Market • Market for Mesoamerica: Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities • Mesoamerica • Museum Ethics • Property Implementation Act • Provenance research • Smithsonian Institution • United Fruit • U.S. government
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-7307-3 / 0813073073
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-7307-1 / 9780813073071