Cultural Heritage Ethics

Constantine Sandis

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Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists, consultants, journalists, lawyers, and museum practitioners, each contributing their own expertise to the wider debate of what cultural heritage means in the twenty-first century.

Cultural Heritage Ethics provides cutting-edge arguments built on case studies of cultural heritage and its management in a range of geographical and cultural contexts. Moreover, the volume feels the pulse of the debate on heritage ethics by discussing timely issues such as access, acquisition, archaeological practice, curatorship, education, ethnology, historiography, integrity, legislation, memory, museum management, ownership, curatorship, protection, public trust, restitution, human rights, stewardship, and tourism.

This volume is neither a textbook nor a manifesto for any particular approach to heritage ethics, but a snapshot of different positions and approaches that will inspire both thought and action. Cultural Heritage Ethics provides invaluable reading for students and teachers of philosophy of archaeology, history and moral philosophy – and for anyone interested in the theory and practice of cultural preservation.

Sujets

• Cultural heritage
• Restitution
• Ethics

Informations

• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 29 juillet 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781783740703
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Cultural Heritage Ethics


Cultural Heritage Ethics
Between Theory and Practice
Edited by Constantine Sandis




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For Eleni Cubitt
Κι οι ποταμοί φουσκώναν μες στη λάσπη το αίμαγια ένα λινό κυμάτισμα για μια νεφέλημιας πεταλούδας τίναγμα το πούπουλο ενός κύκνουγια ένα πουκάμισο αδειανό, για μιαν Ελένη.
Γιώργος Σεφέρης


Contents
Notes on Contributors
ix
List of Illustrations
xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments
xix
Introduction
1
I. Meaning and Memory
9
1.
Culture, Heritage, and Ethics Constantine Sandis
11
2.
Poppy Politics: Remembrance of Things Present James Fox
21
3.
The Meaning of the Public in an Age of Privatisation Benjamin Ramm
31
II. History and Archaeology
41
4.
History as Heritage: Producing the Present in Post-War Sri Lanka Nira Wickramasinghe
43
5.
Looking at the Acropolis of Athens from Modern Times to Antiquity William St Clair
57
6.
South Asian Heritage and Archaeological Practices Sudeshna Guha
103
7.
The Ethics of Digging Geoffrey Scarre
117
III. Ownership and Restitution
129
8.
‘National’ Heritage and Scholarship Sir John Boardman
131
9.
Fear of Cultural Objects Tom Flynn
135
10.
Restitution Sir Mark Jones
149
IV. Management and Protection
169
11.
The Possibilities and Perils of Heritage Management Michael F. Brown
171
12.
Values in World Heritage Sites Geoffrey Belcher
181
13.
Safeguarding Heritage: From Legal Rights over Objects to Legal Rights for Individuals and Communities? Marie Cornu
197
Appendix: Links to Selected International Charters and Conventions on Cultural Heritage
205


Notes on Contributors
Geoffrey Belcher was formerly Coordinator for the UNESCO Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. He is a member of the RTPI and a RIBA Awarded Conservation Architect.
Sir John Boardman is Professor Emeritus of Classical Art and Archaeology at Oxford. He has excavated in Turkey, Greece and Libya, and published books on Greek art, classical gems and the Greeks in Asia. These include The Greeks Overseas (1964; 4th ed. 1999), Excavations at Emporio, Chios (1964), Archaic Greek Gems (1968), Greek Burial Customs (1971), Greek Gems and Finger Rings (1970, new ed. 2001), Persia and the West (2000), The History of Greek Vases (2001), The Archaeology of Nostalgia (2002), Greece and the Hellenistic World (2002), The World of Ancient Art (2006), The Marlborough Gems (2009), and The Relief Plaques of Central Asia and China (2010).
Michael F. Brown is President of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. His books include Who Owns Native Culture? (2003), and Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People (2014).
Marie Cornu is Research Director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and director of the CECOJI (Research Centre on the International Legal Cooperation). Her research interests focus on cultural property law and art law. In cooperation with Prof. Jérôme Fromageau, she co-leads an international research group that recently published a comparative dictionary on cultural property law.
Tom Flynn is founder of The Sculpture Agency and a visiting lecturer at Kingston University. He has written for The Art N ewspaper , Art & Auction , Art Review , Apollo , Art News , Museums Journal , The Spectator , and many others. His books include The Body in Sculpture (1998), Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum (1998, co-edited with T. Barringer), The Paintings of Clive Head (2000), Jedd Novatt (2008), Sean Henry (2009), Skate’s Art Investment Handbook , (2nd ed. 2010), and The Sculpture of Terence Coventry (2012).
James Fox is a Research Fellow in Art History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has previously held research positions at Harvard, Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Yale Center for British Art. He is currently preparing a monograph on British art during the First World War.
Sudeshna Guha is Associate Researcher at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), and the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge, UK. She researches the history of archaeology and South Asia and has recently submitted for publication her first monograph, Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts .
Sir Mark Jones is currently Master of St Cross College, Oxford. He was a curator in the British Museum for seventeen years before becoming Director of the National Museums of Scotland and then of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Benjamin Ramm is a writer and broadcaster, and Research Fellow at Gladstone’s Library, Wales. He is the former editor of The Liberal magazine, and author of Citizens: A Manifesto .
Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author of The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (2012) and has edited numerous books on the philosophy of action and human nature.
Geoffrey Scarre is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK and founder and director of the Durham University Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage. His books include Death (2007), Mill’s ‘On Liberty’: A Reader’s Guide (2007) and On Courage (2010); he has also edited (with Chris Scarre) The E thics of Archaeology (2006) and (with Robin Coningham) Appropriating the Past (2013).
William St Clair is a Fellow of the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. His books include Lord Elgin and the Marbles (1967; 3rd rev. ed. 1998), That Greece Might Still Be Free (1972, 2nd rev. ed. 2008), Trelawny, the Incurable Romancer (1977), The Godwins and the Shelleys (1989), The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004), and T he Grand Slave Emporium (2006).
Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University and the author and editor of numerous books including Dressing the Colonised Body : Politics, Clothing and Ethnic Politics in Colonial Sri Lanka 1927-1947 (1995), Civil Society in Sri Lanka. New Circles of P ower (2001), History Writing: New Trends and Methodologies (2001), Identity in C olonial Sri Lanka (2003), Sri Lanka in the Modern Age – A H istory of Contested Identities (2006), and Metallic Modern – Everyday Machines in C olonial Sri Lanka (2014).


List of Illustrations
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Blue glass sugar bowl inscribed in gilt ‘EAST INDIA SUGAR not made by SLAVES’, Bristol, 1820-30. British Museum. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_India_Sugar_not_made_by_Slaves_Glass_sugar_bowl_BM.jpg
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Statue of Edward Colston by John Cassidy, erected in 1895 on Colston Avenue, Bristol. Photograph by William Avery (2006). Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Colston_1895_statue.jpg (CC BY