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Keeping their marbles : how the treasures of the past ended up in museums-- and why they should stay there / Tiffany Jenkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Tiffany, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural property--Protection.
- Cultural property.
- Historic preservation.
- Museums--Collection management.
- Museums.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The story of how museums of the West acquired their fabulous collections, from the Benin Bronzes to Native American sacred objects, and why they should not be returned to the lands-or the people-from which they came. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I
- 1 Great Explorers and Curious Collectors 15
- 2 The Birth of the Public Museum 37
- 3 Antiquity Fever 66
- 4 Cases of Loot 124
- Part II
- 5 Museum Wars 163
- 6 Who Owns Culture? 202
- 7 The Rise of Identify Museums 251
- 8 Atonement: Making Amends for Past Wrongs 274
- 9 Burying Knowledge: The Fate of Human Remains 290.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 1, 2016)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780191631887
- 0191631884
- Publisher Number:
- 99984034492
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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