Contribution to Book
Cultural Significance and the Kennewick Skeleton: Some Thoughts on the Resolution of Cultural Heritage Disputes
Claiming the stones/naming the bones : cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity
(2002)
Abstract
Cultural property such as works of art, monuments, literature, sacred remains and traditional practices can create a profound sense of communal belonging, yet nothing illuminates the ambiguities of group identity more powerfully than conflicting claims to such material. Addresses current controversies: Elgin marbles, Kennewick skeleton.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2002
Editor
Elazar Barkan; Ronald Bush
Publisher
Getty Research Institute
Series
Issues & debates
ISBN
0892366737
Citation Information
Patty Gerstenblith, Cultural Significance and the Kennewick Skeleton: Some Thoughts on the Resolution of Cultural Heritage Disputes, in Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity 162-97 (Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush eds., 2002)