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The market for Mesoamerica : reflections on the sale of Pre-Columbian antiquities
- Title
- The market for Mesoamerica : reflections on the sale of Pre-Columbian antiquities / edited by Cara G. Tremain and Donna Yates ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- xvi, 213 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Pre-Columbian artifacts are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these items as public, private, and digital sales proliferate. This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit movement of artifacts from Mesoamerica to museums and private collections. Informed by the fields of anthropology, economics, law, and criminology, contributors critically analyze practices of research and collecting in Central American countries. They assess the circulation of looted and forged artifacts on the art market and in museums and examine government and institutional policies aimed at fighting trafficking. They also ask if and how scholars can use materials removed from their context to interpret the past. The theft of cultural heritage items from their places of origin is a topic of intense contemporary discussion, and The Market for Mesoamerica updates our knowledge of this issue by presenting undocumented and illicit antiquities within a regional and global context. Through discussion of transparency, accountability, and ethical practice, this volume ultimately considers how antiquities can be protected and studied through effective policy and professional practice."--
- Series Statement
- Maya studies
- Uniform Title
- Maya studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Making markets for Mesoamerican antiquities / Rosemary A. Joyce -- U.S. collaboration with Mesoamerican countries to protect cultural property / Allison R. Davis -- Corporatism, heritage, and museums: rigmarole in Central America, 1899-1950 / Christina Luke -- There and back again: looting, trafficking culture, and the management of cultural heritage in Guatemala / Sofia Paredes Maury and Guido Krempel -- The odyssey of Piedras Negras Stela 5 / James A. Doyle -- "From a cave near Tehuacán": an attempt to reassemble post-classic Mesoamerican ritual deposits separated by the art market / Martin Berger -- Ancient Zapotec material culture and the antiquities market / Adam Sellen -- Forgery and the Pre-Columbian art market / Nancy L. Kelker -- The many lives of Maya antiquities: tracking distribution and redistribution through auction catalogues / Cara G. Tremain -- Failures and consequences of antiquities antitrafficking policy in Mesoamerica / Donna Yates.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9294
- ISBN
- 9780813056449
- 0813056446
- LCCN
- 2018054073
- 40029305703
- OCLC
- 1077585072
- Title
- The market for Mesoamerica : reflections on the sale of Pre-Columbian antiquities / edited by Cara G. Tremain and Donna Yates ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.
- Publisher
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Maya studiesMaya studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Tremain, Cara G., editor.Yates, Donna, editor.Chase, Diane Z., writer of foreword.Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- writer of foreword.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029305703
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9294