Return to sender: On the politics of cultural property and the proper address of art

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-139

  Glass, Aaron ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Art; Cultural property; Repatriation; Restitution; Social agency

Indexed keywords

ART; MATERIAL CULTURE; REPATRIATION;

EID: 3343018915     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183504044368     Document Type: Article

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