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Contested holdings : museum collections in political, epistemic and artistic processes of return / edited by Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Oțoiu and Eva-Maria Troelenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Museums and collections ; v. 14.
- Museums and collections ; volume 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural property--Repatriation--Case studies.
- Cultural property.
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--Case studies.
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- Museums--Collection management--Moral and ethical aspects--Case studies.
- Museums.
- Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects--Case studies.
- Museum exhibits.
- Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Museums--Collection management.
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation.
- Cultural property--Repatriation.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The value of art
- a human life? : works of art in the crosshairs of the persecution of Jews under national socialism / Ulrike Sass
- Return as reconstruction : the Gwoździec Synagogue replica in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews / Ewa Manikowska
- The other Nefertiti : symbolic restitutions / Ruth E. Iskin
- Blurring objects : life-casts, human remains and art history / Noémie Etienne
- Of phrenology, reconciliation and veneration : exhibiting the repatriated life cast of Māori Chief Takatahara at the Akaroa Museum / Christopher Sommer
- Ancestors or artefacts : contention in the definition, retention and return of Ngarrindjeri old people / Cressida Fforde, Major Sumner, Loretta Sumner, Tristram Besterman and Steve Hemming
- A long term perspective on the issue of the return of Congolese cultural objects : entangled relations between Kinshasa and Tervuren (1930-1980) / Placide Mumbembele Sanger
- 'How would you like to see your great-grandfather in a museum?' : the issue of 'human dignity' in repatriation processes (cases involving French museums) / Cristina Golomoz
- (De)museifying racial taxonomies : the display and/or the restitution of human remains of indigenous peoples from Southern Africa / Damiana Oţoiu
- Baroque returns : the donations and reuses of Francesco Gualdi / Fabrizio Federici
- Getting the Benin bronzes back to Nigeria : the art market and the formation of national collections and concepts of heritage in Benin City and Lagos / Felicity Bodenstein
- What future for looted Syrian antiquities? : The clash between the law and practice for the repatriation of cultural property to countries in crisis / Erin Thompson
- Conclusion. Unfinished projects of 'decentring' Western museum practices / Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Oţoiu and Eva-Maria Troelenberg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 04, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Contested holdings
- ISBN:
- 9781800734241
- 1800734247
- Publisher Number:
- 40030951086
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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