Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes of Response

The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-54

  Nicholas, George P ^a   Wylie, Alison ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeological finds legacies of appropriation, modes of response; Archaeological materials, expression of antiquity; Archaeology, practice of cultural appropriation; Egyptian government, developing copyright legislation; Reciprocal Research Network, linking UBC's Museum of Anthropology; Typology of cultural appropriation in archaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249127684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444311099.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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