Research Catalog

Title

Plundering Africa's past / edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Roderick J. McIntosh.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Schmidt, Peter R. (Peter Ridgway), 1942-
• McIntosh, Roderick J.

Description

xiii, 280 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Africa, Sub-Saharan > Civilization
• Archaeological thefts > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Art thefts > Africa, Sub-Saharan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The African Past Endangered / Peter R. Schmidt and Roderick J. McIntosh -- The Human Right to a Cultural Heritage: African Applications / Peter R. Schmidt -- Saving the Heritage: UNESCO's Action against Illicit Traffic in Africa / Lyndel V. Prott -- Just Say Shame: Excising the Rot of Cultural Genocide / Roderick J. McIntosh -- A View Inside the Illicit Trade in African Antiquities / Michel Brent -- The Fight Against the Plundering of Malian Cultural Heritage and Illicit Exportation: National Efforts and International Cooperation / Samuel Sidibe -- U.S. Efforts in the Protection of Cultural Property: Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention / Maria Papageorge Kouroupas -- Africa's Vanishing Cultural Heritage: Reflections of an American Cultural Diplomat / Robert R. LaGamma -- A Conservation Dilemma Over African Royal Art in Cameroon / Paul Nchoji Nkwi -- Past as Prologues: Empowering Africa's Cultural Institutions / Henry John Drewal --
• Nigerian Art as Endangered Species / Dele Jegede -- Coping with Collapse in the 1990s: West African Museums, Universities, and National Patrimonies / Merrick Posnansky -- How Accurate are Interpretations of African Objects in Western Museums? / Francis B. Musonda -- Whose Cultural Heritage? Conflicts and Contradictions in the Conservation of Historic Structures, Towns, and Rock Art in Tanzania / Amini Aza Mturi -- The Deterioration and Destruction of Archaeological and Historical Sites in Tanzania / N. J. Karoma -- Kenya's Destruction of the Swahili Cultural Heritage / C. M. Kusimba -- Preservation of Cultural Heritage on the East African Coast / Thomas H. Wilson and Athman Lali Omar -- Starting from Scratch: The Past, Present, and Future Management of Somalia's Cultural Heritage / Steven A. Brandt and Osman Yusuf Mohamed -- List of States Party to the 1970 UNESCO Convention.

ISBN

• 0253330408 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0253210542 (pa : alk. paper)

LCCN

95050698

OCLC

• 33862626
• ocm33862626

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries