Restitution of Cultural Property and the Law by Christa Roodt - 9780367425364

Restitution of Cultural Property and the LawComplex Colonial Histories\nAuthor(s): Christa Roodt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367425364, 978-0367425364\nSynopsis\nThis book adopts a novel approach to the social question of restitution and repatriation of sacred cultural property and heritage acquired unethically during the colonial era. It uses an approach premised on better integration of law, ethics, history, anthropology, and provenance research.\n\nTo bridge the material and the sacred world in adjudication and policy formulation, a common definition of what the sacred denotes in the context of colonial legacies is adopted as a viable methodology. Sacred loot in private and public collections is defined based on clues imparted by disputes which are paradigmatic of the fragmentation that envelops the material, the systems of knowledge associated with that material, the structure and method of international.