Developing a better understanding of the flow of assets and the implications for financial regulation may 2014. In 1990, after a long struggle between indian rights groups and the scientific establishment, the native american graves repatriation and protection act was passed. This book adds important essays on ownership issues pertaining to antiquities, including several that look back at seminal cases where complex issues, such as the application of statute of limitations and the meaning and effect of being of good. Repatriation of cultural propertya who owns the past. Lastpass is a freemium password manager that stores encrypted passwords online. With the end in sight she sprinted past chloe who was in second place and triumphantly crossed the finish line.
The past decade, however, has seen major changes in law and public policy and an active, ongoing debate over legal and ethical issues affecting the ownership of art and other cultural property. The politics of religious heritage in contemporary india purpose. Irene winter, babylonian archaeologists of their mesopotamian past, proceedings of the first international congress on the archaeology of the ancient near east, p. An introduction to approaches and to selected statutory instruments carol a. The world health organization who is a specialized agency of the united nations responsible for international public health. Most nation states have cultural property laws that restrict the international movement in archaeological artifacts found within their borders. Tom owns an antique grandfather clock made in the year 1877.
The cocacola company is an american multinational corporation, and manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The discovery of a 9,000yearold skeleton kennewick man on the banks of the columbia river near kennewick, washington, reignited the conflict between anthropologists and indian people over the control of human remains found on ancestral indian lands. Although adobe originally designed and maintained the pdf format, they made it open format in 2008. Everyone and no one which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, neverending journey of discovery. Cultural heritage in the digital age is a portal into the microhistorycultural heritage projects of a uc berkeley course anthropology 6k. History study is all about maintaining things in perspective. Confront these questions in professor hodders winter quarter thinking matters course, who owns the past. The standard version of lastpass comes with a web interface, but also includes plugins for various web browsers and apps for many smartphones. Therefore it is no longer under ownership of any kind. Robin attfield, the ethics of environmental concern atlanta. Buying, selling, owning the past, stanford multidisciplinary teaching and research.
They copied the image file from their my documents folder, but the paste option was greyed out in the editing submenus. The course is an exploration of cultural heritage on a global and local scale through discussion, debate, inclass activities and teambased. Kate galbraith, new homes confront old burial grounds, ny times 6172007. Council directive 977eec, on the return of cultural. The american historian weaves original primary source research, scholarly synthesis, and personal experiences into a highly readable study of the cultural history of americas. The human remains working group was convened jointly by english heritage and the church of england in 2001 in order to address the treatment of burials from. Who owns the past cultural policy, cultural property. The final decades of the twentieth century brought unprecedented changes for american indians, especially in the areas of human rights and tribal sovereignty.
It is this reality and the way that ownership of the past is effected in australia, thereby imposing a serious barrier to aboriginal people in the making of our own. Buying, selling, owning the past, stanford multidisciplinary teaching and research link to site robin attfield, the ethics of environmental concern atlanta. However, everyone and no one owns the past and the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never. But a case tested these claims, and who owns the past. This legislation has successively defined and redefined these purposes, rights and obligations among stakeholders. They wanted to know why this was the case and how they could resolve the issue. All in all, i wouldnt say that the past or heritage can be owned, because those are both intangible ideas. Archaeology, heritage and global conflicts think 22. Sometimes the answer is straightforward when, for instance, the province is the owner of a. Sites looking at the ownership of the past legal aspects, restitution, etc.
A prominent social scientist named edelberto torresrivas and edgar gutierrez, a close advisor to president alfonso portillo, recently discussed these matters. The ethics of heritage and planning bibliography and links. Jim dwyer, from bones of immigrants, stories of pain, ny times 10142009. Who owns history rethinking the past in a changing world. A roundtable discussion at the nasher museum of art on who owns the past. Uvadare digital academic repository who owns the crimean. However, artifacts from the past that may resemble a past heritage can be owned and i think the best way to decide who the artifacts belong to is to generalize, and say who ever owns the land in which it was found on. Thursday evening brought together experts on american and classical archaeology, law and museum curating to discuss the illegal trade of antiquities, objects created so far in the past that they dont have any immediate link to. There is not any one person who owns the entire past. Certainly remains found in greece, whether it be a paleolithic skull or the parthenon are within the boudaries of the current. Past the point of readily apparent and established connections to actual living persons, all human remains and artifacts should belong to all of humanity as a record of our common journey from stone age until today. They were images of church buildings, openair venues, services at largescale conventions, local leaders and congregations taken in the mid1950s. Nonetheless, eric foners work in his book, who is an american.
This course interrogates the relationship between the past and the present through archaeology. Focus to date has been on cultural property primarily concerned with things addressed in part by greater participation of indigenous peoples in the process of archaeology and cultural heritage. Oxford university press, 2009, revised essay from 1972 original. Differentiating asset owners, asset managers and intermediaries asset owners can outsource asset management to an asset manager.
Sign in ephesus museum lobby, quoted in lonely planet turkey 11th ed. You will find a complete bibliography at the end of this syllabus for the. For continued access to the public historian content as it publishes, become a member of the national council on public history, or recommend the public historian to your institutions library. Over the past two centuries, several dozen pieces of company legislation have been enacted in the uk alone. Chesterton once remarked, concerning the possibility of german occupation of france at the outbreak of world war 1, that the culture of the conquered can be injured and. Archaeology, museums, and politics in the 21st century meliora seminar proposal elizabeth colantoni department of religion and classics in january 2017, the selfproclaimed islamic state in iraq and syria used explosives to destroy significant portions of the ancient roman theater at the archaeological site of palmyra. One could say that the entire human population has some type of ownership over the past, which makes the human race connected and unique. Sometimes the story behind a museum object is as dramatic as the object itself. This legislative path has been long and winding table 1 provides a summary. The role of nationalism, politics, and profit in presenting. These bone points are amongancient arvated by australian researchersand aborigines back. In what sense is the province responsible for its own heritage.
The company produces cocacola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist john stith pemberton in atlanta, georgia. Pdf this paper examines a concrete political controversy in order to shed light on a broad philosophical issue. The united states is a victim of such as it has a tendency to turn to past religion that employs myths of radical novelty. But for the really uninitiated, qe is an important innovation in australian publishing. Dr mcbryde, in her introduction to the book, who owns the past, declared that the past is the possession of those in power. Roehrenbeck should cultural property taken by a stronger power or nation remain with that country or should it be returned to the place where it was created. No other species would claim any type of ownership over any object or meaning that comes from decades or centuries before they existed. Turkeys role in the loss and repatriation of antiquities kathleen price every flower is beautiful in its own garden. This became obvious after the opening of the museum of history and. Returning antiquities to their countries of origin by joyce mortimer. The politics of time in a model bulgarian village in the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern europe, time has been a central resource under. This conceptual paper aims to contribute to the growing literature around the politics of heritage by focusing on india which has a multifaceted society with several layers of religious culture and history. At the same time, students will be exposed to and gain an appreciation for the.
For each class you will read pdf versions of articles or book selections on blueline2. Why cant i paste images into a pdf document in pdf. A noted and appropriate writer is asked to put together 20,000 or so words on an. The who constitution, which establishes the agencys governing structure and principles, states its main objective as ensuring the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Each individual has a vested interest in knowing the past because the past is in everyone. Repatriation of cultural propertywho owns the past. However, everyone and no one owns the past and the study of the past is a constantly evolving, neverending journey of discovery, states foner history, columbia univ. However, everyone and no one owns the past and the study of the past is a. The opinions expressed are as of may 2014 and may change as subsequent conditions vary. Elisabeth bumiller, seizing a last chance to find lost g.
The past is the true news, for it remains undecided, and it is the past to which people know they must refer so as to see ahead. This paper explores various cultural heritage, museological and historiography issues at play in the. This conceptual paper aims to contribute to the growing literature around the politics of. A collection of links looking at aspects of the archaeology and antiquities of iraq in the light of the recent war and continuing problems.