Description
Book SynopsisThere is a vast body of international and national law that regulates cultural heritage. However, the current regulation remains quite blind to the so called transnational heritage. This is heritage where there is no community recognized in law that it can be directly attributed to and that can be responsible for its safekeeping and preservation. It can also be items of heritage where the claim of ownership is disputed between two or more peoples or communities. Transnational heritage challenges the idea of monolithic, mono-cultural, ethno-national states. There are a number of examples of such cultural heritage, for instance the Buddhist Bamiyan statutes in Afghanistan, Palmyra in Syria, the Jewish heritage of Iraq, or various items that are currently housed in large, often Western, museums, as a result of colonial practices. This book explores the regulation of transnational heritage. By discussing many cases of transnational heritage and the problems that arise due to the la
Table of Contents
Prologue 1. Introduction 2. Matter: Current regulation and transnational heritage 3. Movement: Heritage without borders 4. Diversity: Transnational cultural heritage 5. Constellations: The transnational in community 6. Memories: New regulatory approaches Epilogue
