The Return of Cultural Treasures
$334.65
- Hardcover
522 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2007
Summary
Cultural Treasures: A Fight for Heritage
In recent years, controversial cases like the Elgin Marbles have ignited public debate about returning cultural treasures to their homelands. In this fully revised and expanded third edition of her seminal work, first published in 2007, Jeanette Greenfield analyzes the historical, legal, and political issues surrounding similar cases.
This updated edition includes new chapters on wartime plunders, deliberately destroyed art, and the r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521802161 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521802164 |
| Author: | Jeanette Greenfield |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 522 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 1.18kg |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 173mm x 249mm |
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Critics Review
Lingua Franca [ listed the Return of Cultural Treasures ] as a ‘breakthrough book’ and chose it as one of the most provocative in the field of folklore, … ’which treats in a very detailed and illuminating and nuanced way, processes about which folklorists increasingly are … concerned: the expropriation of cultural capital and its use by powerful nation-states for the purposes of political legitimization, and then its repatriation, as a result of growing pressure from those from whom it was taken.’
About The Author
Jeanette Greenfield
Jeanette Greenfield is Australian and graduated from Melbourne and Cambridge Universities before taking her Ph.D. at Cambridge in international law.
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