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Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology
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by Colin Renfrew


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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 Yet the clandestine and unpublished digging of archaeological sites for gain - looting - is destroying the context in which archaeological findings can be understood, as well as sabotaging the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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Crisis is not too strong a word to use when we speak of the predicament which today faces the historic heritage in nearly every country on earth.

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  • Title Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology
  • Author Colin Renfrew
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
  • Date 2000-10-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780715630341 / 0715630342
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.2 in (21.34 x 14.22 x 0.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Art thefts, Archaeological thefts
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001326134
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.69

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  • Choice, 06/01/2008, Page 1697

About the author

Colin Renfrew was formerly Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeology, University of cambridge, UK, where he is now Senior Fellow. His publications include Figuring It Out: Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists (2003); Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos, 1974-77, and Prehistory: the Making of the Human Mind (both 2007).
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