Censoring Knowledge: The Case for the Publication of Unprovenanced Cuneiform Tablets

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. The Value of Museums
6. To Shape the Citizens of “That Great City, the World” 37
7. “And What Do You Propose Should Be Done with Those Objects?” 55
8. Whose Culture Is It? 71
9. Part Two. The Value of Antiquities
10. Antiquities and the Importance—and Limitations—of Archaeological Contexts 89
11. Archaeologists, Collectors, and Museums 107
12. Censoring Knowledge: The Case for the Publication of Unprovenanced Cuneiform Tablets 125
13. Part Three. Museums, Antiquities, and Cultural Property
14. Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property 143
15. Heritage and National Treasures 165
16. The Nation and the Object 183
17. Select Bibliography 205
18. Contributors 209
19. Index 213