This is not a good night at the museum. how could theft on such a scale happen? do you think their position is untenable? not really, ithink do you think their position is untenable? not really, i think if i had been untenable? not really, i think if i had been in those positions i would have gone had been in those positions i would have gone virtually immediately. tonight we rejoined by charles suamerez smith, the former head of three national art insitutions, and christos tsirogiannis, unesco s expert on the trafficking of illicit antiquities. also tonight, brazil, russia, india, china and south africa. at a summit in johennesburg, the five brics countries push for expansion, and challenge what they see as the g7 s hegemony. so what is their plan? we ll be speaking to a former china analyst for the us department of defense, a south african international security expert who s at the summit and the host
Real, Recent, or Replica: Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration
Real, Recent, or Replica: Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration (University of Alabama Press, 2021) is a new volume edited by Joanna Ostapkowicz and Jonathan A. Hanna. It examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials. Describing the book, Neil Brodie (coeditor of Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology) writes, “An unprecedented exploration of the furtive practices of collecting, faking, and looting as they entangle the scholarly study of Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory. Local in focus but global in impact, the book has much to teach us about the consequences and unintended consequences of public policy’s embrace of cultural heritage.”
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Illinois State Museum Joins Global Conversation on the Return of Cultural Heritage
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois State Museum (ISM) will join museums, universities, and museum professionals across five continents virtually April through June to present a four-part conversation series on repatriation and the return of cultural heritage.
Due to colonization practices, museums hold in their collections ancestors, belongings, and treasures belonging to Indigenous peoples. As museums atone with past practices and engage Indigenous communities, they are beginning to return some of their holdings to the cultures where they belong. However, a viable, international approach to repatriation has yet to be found.