Regulating Transnational Heritage
Regulating Transnational Heritage There is a vast body of international and national law that regulates cultural heritage. This is heritage where there is no community recognized in law that it can…
Specifikacia Regulating Transnational Heritage
Regulating Transnational Heritage
There is a vast body of international and national law that regulates cultural heritage. This is heritage where there is no community recognized in law that it can be directly attributed to and that can be responsible for its safekeeping and preservation. However, the current regulation remains quite blind to the so called "transnational heritage".
Transnational heritage challenges the idea of monolithic, mono-cultural, ethno-national states. It can also be items of heritage where the claim of ownership is disputed between two or more peoples or communities. There are a number of examples of such cultural heritage, for instance the Buddhist Bamiyan statutes in Afghanistan, Palmyra in Syria, the Jewish heritage of Iraq, or various items that are currently housed in large, often Western, museums, as a result of colonial practices.
This book explores the regulation of transnational