The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, law, Indigenous studies, history, folklore studies, and policy, this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens our understanding of this issue of growing importance. This comprehensive and coherent statement of cultural property issues will be of great interest to cultural sector professionals and policy makers, as well as students and academic researchers engaged with cultural property in a variety of disciplines.

1. IntroductionHaidy Geismar and Jane AndersonPart OneLegal Orderings of Cultural Property2. Heritage vs. Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial FieldValdimar Tr. Hafstein and Martin Skrydstrup3. The Criminalisation of the Illicit Trade in Cultural PropertyAna Filipa Vrdoljak 4. Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention by the United States and Other Market NationsPatty Gerstenblith5. Protection not Prevention: The Failure of Public Policy to Prevent the Looting and Illegal Trade of Cultural Property from the Mena Region (1990-2015) Neil Brodie6. A Paradox of Cultural Property: NAGPRA and (Dis)PossessionSusan BentonPart TwoMuseums, Archives and Communities7. NAGPRA, CUI and Institutional Will Rae Gould8. Betting on the Raven: Ethical Relationality and Nuxalk Cultural PropertyJennifer Kramer9. Whose Story is This? Complexities and Complicities of Using Archival FootageFred Myers10. The Archive of the Archive: the Secret History of the Laura Boulton CollectionAaron Fox11. Touching the Intangible: Reconsidering Material Culture in the Realm of Indigenous Cultural Property ResearchGeorge NicholasPart ThreeLocal Histories12. On the Nature of Patrimonio: Cultural Property in Mexican ContextsSandra Rozental13. Making and Unmaking Heritage Value in ChinaShu Li Wang and Michael Rowlands14. Object Movement: UNESCO, Language and the Exchange of Middle Eastern ArtifactsMorag Kersel15. Cultures of Property: Ghanaian Culture in Intellectual and Cultural PropertyBoatema BoatengPart FourCultural Property Beyond the State16. Culture as a Flexible Concept for the Legitimation of Policies in the European UnionStefan Groth and Regina Bendix17. The Bible as Cultural Property? A Cautionary TaleNeil Asher Silberman18. Being pre-Indigenous: Kin, Accountability and Cultural Property Beyond TraditionPaul Tapsell19. Frontiers of Cultural Property in the Global SouthRosemary CoombeSection FiveNew and Experimental Forms of Cultural Property20. Who Owns Yoga? Transforming Traditions as Cultural PropertySita Reddy21.Bones, Documents and DNA: Cultural Property at the Margins of the LawLee Douglas22. Collaborative Encounters in Digital Cultural Property: Tracing Temporal Relationships of Context and LocalityJane Anderson and Maria Montenegro23. Animating Language: Continuing Inter-Generational Indigenous Language KnowledgeShannon Faulkhead, John Bradley and Brent McKee24. Ancestors for Sale in Aotearoa New ZealandMarama Muru Lanning

Jane Anderson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York University. Her research is focused on property law, Indigenous rights and sovereignty, colonial archives, repatriation, digital return, collaborative research, and transformative practice for social change.Haidy Geismar is Reader in Anthropology and Vice Dean for Strategic Projects at University College London where she co-directs the Digital Anthropology Program. Her research interests focus on digital collections, Indigenous intellectual and cultural property, critical museum studies, the anthropology of economy and exchange, material culture and materiality, and digital anthropology.