55 thoughts on “ Tuesday Ethics, 6/2/2020: Stunts, Looting, ... Minneapolis’s decision to allow that is what has led to almost a week of wanton looting and other violent depredations.
Anatol In acquiring these illicit antiquities, museums failed to do due diligence in determining the authenticity and provenance of objects.
Yes, I do believe in God. Let their homes go down in value. Part of that essay reads:
If this is being taught on campus, and the administrators think it’s OK, just imagine what else is being taught there. Tess Davis, a lawyer with the Antiquities Coalition, praised the Cleveland Museum of Art for voluntarily returning the Hanuman statue, but argued that it should never have been allowed to enter the collection in the first place. Now, I’m not condoning the looting and trafficking of antiquities, but it no longer seems so straightforward to blame looters for putting their basic needs before the preservation of the archaeological record, nor does it seem fair to view looters as the sole perpetrators of the practice.
“So-called leaders in the field still justify retaining plunder in order to fill their ‘universal museums’ where patrons can view encyclopaedic collections from all over the world. Maddie The events of 2015 in Palmyra, Syria, including the grievous iconoclasm – that is, the destruction of monuments for religious or political purposes – and Khaled al-Asaad’s refusal to give up the location of ancient artefacts at the cost of his life, cemented my aspirations in becoming an archaeologist and helping safeguard the relics of the past from similar atrocities. “How could anyone not know this was stolen property? Sometimes, these claims have little to do with the illicit trade. Black lives splatter!
Loot me and I shoot thee! As Cannon-Brookes (1994, p. 350) argues, artefacts without context are “cultural orphans…virtually useless for scholarly purposes”. And it is plain to see that the devil is hard at work in America. They are like locusts, they infect an area, they destroy and lay waste to it, and they move on. When people are being told it is OK for them to destroy other people’s property, you have to take matters into your own hands because no one else is going to protect you. The antiquities black market therefore exploits the looters’ precarity, cyclically robbing them of the possibility to invest in a longer-term economically stable future. […] This work is termed “precarious labour”, and includes mushroom-picking, rubbish-sifting and subsistence-looting. The idol had been hacked from the Prasat Chen temple in Siem Reap in the 1960s before journeying via a litany of dealers into the holds of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1982. It destroys lives and families. “Many collections were built during colonial times, but I’m not tilting at windmills, trying to undo history,” he said. Renfrew, C & Elia, R 1993, ‘Collectors are the Real Looters’, Archaeology, vol. I don’t think it’s entirely without fault, but it has some great (mysterious! Zane Yet, for me, the most compelling part of the textbook wasn’t actually about the ancient past itself, but the politics of its afterlife: archaeological ethics, repatriation, conservation, 3D-printing and other technologies used in reproduction. What is Right is now wrong and the ones who love the wrongs (the real wrongs) are crawling from the woodworks. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. “The Hanuman first surfaced on the market while Cambodia was in the midst of a war and facing genocide,” she said. 69-94.
( Log Out / I don’t blame you, JAS. Hillary Clinton has campaigned, sat in policy meetings, and even met privately with DeRay McKesson to discuss what she can do to help the #blacklivesmatter movement, a movement that has spawned rioting throughout the country.
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