Clst/Hum 270: Preserving the Past: Collectors and the Trade in Antiquities

Taught by Nancy Sultan, IWU 2001


 
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On-line Resources
"Looting Matters! The Material & Ethical Consequences of Collecting Antiquities" (C. Chippendale & D. Gill)

URL: http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/staff/dg/looting/

"The ‘Looting Question’ Bibliography: The Archaeological Politics of Private Collecting, Commercial treasure Hunting, Looting, and ‘Professional’ Archaeology" (H. Jarvis)

URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Documents/lootbib.html

"The Parthenon Marbles" (Ian Swindale)

URL: http://www.Greece.org/parthenon/marbles/

Illicit Antiquities Research Center, U. Cambridge (J. Doole)

URL: http://www-mcdonald.arch.cam.ac.uk/IARC/home.htm

"Sources of Information on Antiquities Theft" (Laura Robbins)

URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~robbinsls/theft/index.html
 
 

Useful Books

Meyer, K. The Plundered Past. New York: Atheneum. 1973

Skeates, R. Debating the Archaeological Heritage. London: Duckworth. 2000.

St. Clair, W. Lord Elgin & The Marbles: The Controversial History of the Parthenon Sculptures. Oxford: Oxford U. Press. 1998 (orig. 1967)

Tubb, K. W., ed. Antiquities Trade or Betrayed: Legal, Ethical & Conservation Issues. London: Archetype Publications, Ltd. 1995

Vitelli, K.D., ed. Archaeological Ethics. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. 1996

Vrettos, Th. The Elgin Affair: The Abduction of Antiquity’s Greatest Treasures & the Passions it Aroused. New York: Arcade. 1997
 
 

In the Discovery Series (Little paperbacks with documents & great illustrations)

Etienne, R. & F. The Search for Ancient Greece. New York; Harry Abrams. 1992 (orig. French ed. 1990)

Moatti, C. In Search of Ancient Rome. New York: Harry Abrams, Inc. 1993 (orig. French ed. 1989)

Vercoutter, J. The Search for Ancient Egypt. New York: Harry Abrams. 1992 (orig. French ed. 1986)