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Author	Jenkins, Tiffany.
Title	Keeping their marbles : how the treasures of the past ended up in museums... and why they should stay there / Tiffany Jenkins.
Publication Info.	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 11	069 J	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First edition.
Description	ix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-353) and index.
Contents	Great explorers and curious collectors -- The birth of the public museum -- Antiquity fever -- Cases of loot -- Museum wars -- Who owns culture? -- The rise of identity museums -- Atonement : making amends for past wrongs -- Burying knowledge : the fate of human remains -- Concluding thoughts.
Subject	Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Museums -- Acquisitions -- Social aspects.
	Cultural property -- Protection.
	Cultural property -- Repatriation.
	Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Social aspects.
	Museums -- Collection management -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Museums -- Collection management -- Social aspects.
	Art -- Collectors and collecting.
Added Title	How the treasures of the past ended up in museums... and why they should stay there
ISBN	9780199657599 (hbk.)
	0199657599 (hbk.)

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