[PDF.97kt] Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities

Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Support for Encyclopedic Museums|By Robert Lebling|This successor to "Who Owns Antiquity?" features essays by scholars who, like Cuno, support encyclopedic museums and advocate an internationalist approach to ownership of ancient cultural heritage. Among them are Kwame Anthony Appiah of Princeton, Sir John Boardman of Oxford, British Museum director Neil MacGregor and David Owe| |"In this new collection of essays, Cuno has also assembled a group of broadly like-minded colleagues, both museum curators and academics, all of whom affirm, from a variety of perspectives, why great encyclopaedic collections can, and ought, to exist. . . . [T

The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake in this...

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