95, no. 55 thoughts on “ Tuesday Ethics, 6/2/2020: Stunts, Looting, ... Minneapolis’s decision to allow that is what has led to almost a week of wanton looting and other violent depredations.

The idol had been hacked from the Prasat Chen temple in Siem Reap in the 1960s before journeying via a litany of dealers into the holds of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1982. Sad day for Yale. Your email address will not be published.

But Cuno fears that universal museums in the west face a deeper challenge from nationalists around the world. Our country has quickly become bassackards.
If anything, as Renfrew and Elia (1993) argue, antiquities collectors are accountable for the demand that looters respond to – a demand that originates in the imperialist practices of 17th- and 18th-century Europe. OFFGRID SURVIVAL is a preparedness & survival website that is dedicated to helping people become self-reliant and better prepared.

One Author's Controversial View: 'In Defense Of Looting' : Code Switch In her provocative book, writer Vicky Osterweil argues that looting is a tool to bring about change in society.
The citizens of New York, London, and Paris may benefit, but those of Phnom Penh?

Would anyone let something like this discourage them from applying. Borodkin, LJ 1995, ‘The Economics of Antiquities Looting and a Proposed Legal Alternative’, Columbia Law Review, vol. Let their infrastructure collapse. When archaeology students learn about the practice of looting, we’re told one thing: the context of the artefact is lost forever, which means we’ll never know how the artefact relates to the site, period, or assemblage, and, consequently, the complete reconstruction of the archaeological record becomes impossible. Just take more courses in Physics, Law, Math, Chemistry, Biology, Anatomy, Engineering, and smile as you walk passed the students in Looting 101. The headlines generated by such scandals threaten the very acquisitive enterprise of western museums; mounting demands for repatriation make more difficult the project of building “universal” institutions presenting the art and history of the world. From another perspective, that defence smacks of western privilege. Elia (Renfrew and Elia 1993, p. 17) asserts that “the only way to make a dent in the looting problem is to reduce the demand for antiquities by bringing about a change in social attitude whereby collecting is no longer considered socially acceptable.” I think this is true, but it’s still an archaeologist-centric view.

Lionel A perspective that can provide more emic insights is evidently required by this multifaceted phenomena, and it’s a conversation that anthropology is positioned to initiate. These guys are trying to rationalize excuses for inexcusable behavior. pressing you to no longer keep me out of this space, by destroying it”. As Cannon-Brookes (1994, p. 350) argues, artefacts without context are “cultural orphans…virtually useless for scholarly purposes”. Reply. “On a less abstract level there is a practical and tactical benefit to looting. Robert Richardson The American Revolutionary War Two (RV2) is almost on us. How can western ‘universal’ museums acquire and display artefacts without stoking the illegal arts trade and reproducing colonialist narratives? Julia 377-417. He sees a parallel between the trade in antiquities and the drug trade: demand in western countries makes both possible. Loot me and I shoot thee! © 2019 Off Grid Survival - Your source for Everything Survival Related - Hiking, Backpacking, Urban Survival, Tactical News & Survivalist Gear | Legal & Disclaimers.

I don’t think it’s entirely without fault, but it has some great (mysterious! Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Living the simple life? […] This work is termed “precarious labour”, and includes mushroom-picking, rubbish-sifting and subsistence-looting. And you aren’t sticking it to the elites in society; you’re sticking it to your neighbors who own these businesses.

It is morally wrong. As Dr. Yates (2019) contends, the idea of looters as grave robbers and tomb raiders is far too simplistic. This provocative question ignited a wide-ranging discussion about the causes of looting, the relationship of looting to a global illicit trade, and the duties of archaeologists and other professionals who might encounter evidence of looting. “Works of art have not adhered to modern political borders,” he said. The prestigious Ivy League school brought the criminal in to teach a two-day course on…wait for it… “The ethics of looting.” In his class, the activist has students reading from an essay called “In Defense of Looting,” written at the height of the riots in Ferguson, Missouri. 46, no.

They are the entitled ones.

Black lives do matter. The Egyptian Museum of Turin in Italy specialises in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology and houses one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities with over 30,000 artefacts. “Subsistence” here implies that the individual is economically disenfranchised: “they are looting for survival, not profit” (Yates 2012). Museums have rarely been forced by legal rulings to give up artefacts; instead, they have voluntarily – sometimes pre-emptively – handed over the dodgy objects in their collections.