ARK4210 ¨C Heritage, Material Culture and Conflict
Spring 2019
Literature marked (*) will be available in compendium. The rest of the publications are available on web.
In addition to these articles students are expected to list 450/550 pages of self-chosen literature.
Introduction
* Bahrani, Zainab 2010: ¡°Archaeology and the strategies of war¡±, in Baker, Raymond w.; Ismael, Shereen T. and Tareq Y. Ismael (eds.) Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums were looted, libraries burned and academics murdered. Pluto Press, London.P. 67-92. (15 sider)
(€) Baillie, Britt; Chatzoglou, Afroditi and Shadia Taha 2010: Packaging the Past. Heritage Management 3:1, p. 51-71. (20 sider)
(€) Curtis, John 2009: ¡°Relations between Archaeologists and the Military in the case of Iraq¡±, in Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 19:2-8. (6 sider)
(€) Hamilakis, Yannis 2009: The ¡®War on Terror¡¯ and the Military¨CArchaeology Complex: Iraq, Ethics, and Neo Colonialism. Journal of the World Archaeological Congress, Volume 5, Number 1, 39-65. (27 sider.)
* Harrison, Rodney 2010 (red): Understanding the Politics of Heritage. Manchester University Press, Manchester. Kapittel 1, s. 5-42. (37 sider)
* Meskell, Lynn and Robert W. Preucel 2007: ¡°Politics¡±, in Meskel, Lynn and Robert W. Preucel (eds.) A Companion to Social Archaeology. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, 2007. P.315-334. (19 sider)
(€) Meskell, Lynn 2015: Gridlock: UNESCO, global conflict and failed ambitions. World Archaeology 46:2, p. 225-238. (13 sider)
* Pollock, Susan 2005: ¡°Archaeology Goes to War at the Newsstand¡±, in Pollock, Susan and Reinhard Bernbeck (eds.) Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives. Blackwell, Malden 2005. P. 78-96. (18 sider)
Community archaeology
* Exell, Karen 2013: ¡°Community consultation and the redevelopment of Manchester Museum¡¯s Ancient Egypt Galleries¡± in Golding, Viv and Wayne Modest (eds) Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration. Bloomsbury, London, 2013. P. 130-142. (12 sider)
(€) Holtorf, Cornelius J. 2007: Can You Hear Me At the Back? Archaeology, Communication and Society. European Journal of Archaeology 10(2-3): 149-165. (13 sider)
* Lea, Joanne and Thomas, Suzie 2014: ¡°Introduction¡± Thomas, S and Lea, J. Public Participation in Archaeology, 2014, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, p. 1-7. (7 sider)
(€) Logan, William and Keir Reeves 2009: Introduction In: Logan, W. and Keir Reeves (eds.) Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with ¡®Difficult Heritage¡¯. Routledge, New York. P.1-14. (13 sider)
(€) Thomas, Suzie 2015: ¡°Collaborate, Condemn, or Ignore? Responding to Non-Archaeological Approaches to Archaeological Heritage¡± European Journal of Archaeology 18(2), p. 312-335. (23 sider)
(€) Waterton, Emma and Laurajane Smith 2010: ¡°The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage¡±, in International Journal of Heritage Studies 16:1-2. P 4-15. (11 sider)
Human remains: research and ethics
(€) Aronsson, ?ke et al 2013: ¡°Comments on Asgeir Svestad: ¡®What happened in Neiden? On the Question of Reburial Ethics¡±, in Norwegian Archaeological Review 46:2. p.223-242. (19 sider)
* Brooks, Mary and Claire Ramsey 2007: ¡°¡®Who knows the fate of his bones?¡¯ Rethinking the body on display: object, art or human remains?¡± in Knell, Simon, MacLeod, s. and Sheila Watson (eds) Museum Revolutions. Routledge, London, 2007. P. 343-354. (11 sider)
(€) Svestad, Asgeir (2013) ¡°What Happened in Neiden? On the Question of Reburial Ethics¡± in Norwegian Archaeological Review 46:2, 194-222. (28 sider)
The Insta-dead: studying the online trade in human remains
* Huffer, D and Chappell, D. 2014: ¡°The mainly nameless and faceless dead: An exploratory study of the illicit traffic in archaeological and ethnographic human remains¡±. Crime, Law and Social Change, Volume 62, 131-153.
(€) Paul, K A. 2018: ¡°Ancient artifacts vs. digital artifacts: New tools for unmasking the sale of illicit antiquities on the dark web¡±. Arts, Volume 7, Number 2.
[If interested, more material is available at: https://www.su.se/english/profiles/dhuff-1.326300]
[If interested, more information on the Bone Trade project is available at: https://bonetrade.github.io/]
[If interested, more information on the Alliance to Counter Crime Online (ACCO) is available at: https://counteringcrime.org/]
[If interested, more information on the 2019-2020 workshop series, Changing Hands, Changing Meanings: Researching Cultural Heritage Trafficking in the Nordic Region, is available at: https://noshsculturalpropertycrime.wordpress.com]
Cultural heritage in armed conflict: Libyan antiquities and the art market
[This is an ongoing investigation.]
Cultural heritage studies and politicisation of heritage by the far-right in Scandinavia
(€) Bonacchi, C, Altaweel, M and Krzyzanska, M. 2018: ¡°The heritage of Brexit: Roles of the past in the construction of political identities through social media¡±. Journal of Social Archaeology, Volume 18, Number 2, 174-192.
* Niklasson, E and H?lleland, H. 2018: ¡°The Scandinavian far-right and the new politicisation of heritage¡±. Journal of Social Archaeology, Volume 18, Number 2, 121-148.
International cultural heritage law
(€) Act of 9 June 1978 No. 50 Concerning the Cultural Heritage. Norwegian Ministry of Culture. (9 sider)
(€) Albertson, L. 2018: ¡°Repatriation: The case of the stolen TEFAF Buddha¡±. Association for Research into Crime against Art (ARCA), 15th August.
(€) Bauer, Alexander A.; Lindsay, Shanel and Stephen Urice 2007: ¡°When theory, practice and policy collide, or why do archaeologists support cultural property claims?¡± in Hamilakis, Yannis and Philip Duke (eds)Archaeology and Capitalism, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California. (13 sider)
(€) Gerstenblith, Patty 2013 ¡°The law as mediator between archaeology and collecting¡±, Internet Archaeology 33 (6 sider)
(€) H?lleland, Herdis and Marit Johansson 2017: '...to exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience': on insider research and the World Heritage Convention, International Journal of Cultural Policy, s.1-13 (14 sider)
* H?lleland, Herdis 2017: Caged for Protection: Exploring the Paradoxes of Protecting New Zealand's Dactylanthus taylorii. Environment and History 2017, vol. 23.(4) pp. 545-567 (22 sider)
(€) Soderland, Hilary 2013: ¡°Heritage Values, Jurisprudence, and Globalization¡±, in Biehl, Peter F. and Christopher Prescott (eds) Heritage in the Context of Glabalization: Europe and the Americas. Ch. 2, pp: 11-17 (6 sider)
Illicit trade in cultural objects
(€) Al-Houdalieh, S H. 2013: ¡°Physical hazards encountered by antiquities looters: A case study from the Palestinian National Territories¡±. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Volume 145, Number 4, 320-333.
(€) Brodie and Proulx: ¡°Museum malpractice as corporate crime? The case of the J. Paul Getty Museum¡±, in Journal of Crime and Justice37:3. (23 sider)
* Brodie, N and Sabrine, I. 2018: ¡°The illegal excavation and trade of Syrian cultural objects: A view from the ground¡±. Journal of Field Archaeology, Volume 43, Number 1, 74-84.
(€) Davis, T and Mackenzie, S M. 2014: ¡°Crime and conflict: Temple looting in Cambodia¡±. In Kila, J D and Balcells, M (Eds.). Cultural property crime: An overview and analysis of contemporary perspectives and trends, 292-306. Leiden: Brill.
(€) Fabiani, M D. 2018: ¡°Disentangling strategic and opportunistic looting: The relationship between antiquities looting and armed conflict in Egypt¡±. Arts, Volume 7.
* Kersel, Morag 2012: The value of a looted object: stakeholder perceptions in the antiquities trade. In Skeates, Robin; McDavid, Carol and John Carman (eds.) The Oxford handbook of public archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 253-272. (19 sider)
(€) Matsuda, David 1998: The ethics of archaeology, subsistence digging, and artifact looting in Latin America: point muted counterpoint. International Journal of Cultural Property, 7, pp 87-97. (10sider)
* Mazza, R. 2015: ¡°Papyri, ethics, and economics: A biography of P.Oxy. 15.1780 (?39)¡±. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Volume 52, 113-142.
(€) Prescott, C and Omland, A. 2003: ¡°The Sch?yen Collection in Norway: Demand for the return of objects and questions about Iraq¡±. Culture Without Context, Number 13, 8-11.
(€) Tsirogiannis, C. 2015: ¡°Mapping the supply: Usual suspects and identified antiquities in ¡®reputable¡¯ auction houses in 2013¡±. Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueolog¨ªa, Volume 25, 107-144.
(€) Tsirogiannis, C. 2016: ¡°Reasons to doubt: Misleading assertions in the London antiquities market¡±. Journal of Art Crime, Number 15, 67-72.
Metal-detecting (in order of publication, as some were part of a discussion)
(€) Rasmussen, Josephine M. 2014: ¡°Securing Cultural Heritage Objects and Fencing Stolen Goods? A Case Study on Museums and Metal Detecting in Norway¡±. Norwegian Archaeological Review 47:1. 83-107. (24 sider)
(€) Gundersen, J, Rasmussen, J M and Lie, R O. 2016: ¡°Private metal detecting and archaeology in Norway¡±. Open Archaeology, Volume 2, 160-170.
(€) Hardy, S A. 2017: ¡°Quantitative analysis of open-source data on metal detecting for cultural property: Estimation of the scale and intensity of metal detecting and the quantity of metal-detected cultural goods¡±. Cogent Social Sciences, Volume 3.
(€) Karl, R. 2017: ¡°Metal detecting and the lack of efficacy of any kind of regulation. A response to a paper by Samuel A. Hardy.¡± Academia, no date.
(€) Deckers, P, Dobat, A, Ferguson, N, Heeren, S, Lewis, M and Thomas, S. 2018: ¡°The complexities of metal detecting policy and practice: A response to Samuel Hardy, ¡®quantitative analysis of open-source data on metal detecting for cultural property¡¯ (Cogent Social Sciences 3, 2017)¡±. Open Archaeology, Volume 4, 322-333.
(€) Hardy, S A. 2018: ¡°A response to a response on metal-detecting and open-source analysis¡±. Conflict Antiquities, 26th July.
* Hardy, S A. 2016: ¡°¡®Black archaeology¡¯ in Eastern Europe: Metal detecting, illicit trafficking of cultural objects and ¡®legal nihilism¡¯ in Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine¡±. Public Archaeology, Volume 15, Number 4, 214-237. [This volume of Public Archaeology was published in 2018, but categorised as a late publication from 2016.]
(€) Hardy, S A. 2018: ¡°Metal detecting for cultural objects until ¡®there is nothing left¡¯: The potential and limits of digital data, netnographic data and market data for analysis¡±. Arts, Volume 7, Number 3.
Suggested (in other words, not required) background reading:
Brodie, Neil; Kersel, Morag; Luke, Christina and Kathryn Walker Tubb (eds.)2006: Archaeology, cultural heritage, and the antiquities trade. University Press of Florida, Gainsville
Gonz¨¢lez-Ruibal, Alfredo and Gabriel Moshenska (eds.) 2015: Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence. Springer e-pub
Harrison, Rodney 2013: Heritage: Critical Approaches. Routledge, London
Hewison, Robert 1987: The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline. Methuen Ltd, London.
Mackenzie, Simon and Penny Green (eds.) 2009: Criminology and Archaeology. Hart Publishing, Oxford.
Skeates, Robin; McDavid, Carol and John Carman (eds.) 2012: The Oxford handbook of public archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Skeates, Robin 2000: Debating the Archaeological Heritage. Duckworth, London.
Smith, Laurajane and Emma Waterton 2009: Heritage, Communities and Archaeology. Duckworth, London.
Renfrew, Colin 2000: Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The ethical crisis in archaeology. Duckworth, London.