Description: Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership : The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology, Paperback by Renfrew, Colin, ISBN 0715630342, ISBN-13 9780715630341, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Colin Renfrew argues that what is most precious in archaeology is the information that excavations can shed on our human past. Yet the clandestine and unpublished digging of archaeological sites for gain - looting - is destroying the context in which archaeological findings can be understood, as well as sabotaging the most valuable information. It is the source of most of the antiquities that appear on the art market today - unprovenanced antiquities, the product of illicit traffic financed, knowingly or not by the collectors and museums that buy them on a no-questions-asked basis. This trade has turned London as well as other international centres into a thieves kitchen where greed triumphs over serious appreciation of the past. Unless a solution is found to this ethical crisis in archaeology, Renfrew argues that our record of the past will be vastly diminished, and his book lays bare the misunderstanding and hypocrisy that underlies that crisis.
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Book Title: Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership : the Ethical Crisis in Archaeology
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2000
Topic: Archaeology, Public Policy / Cultural Policy, General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Author: Colin Renfrew
Item Length: 8.5 in
Book Series: Debates in Archaeology Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
