Cultural Property and Heritage Recommended Reading

Titles that I found helpful!  (I will provide summaries eventually and add more books)

Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice

Barbara T. Hoffman

 

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New Edition)

Benedict Anderson

 

Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology)

Colin Renfrew

 

Against Cultural Property: Archaeology, Heritage and Ownership (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology)

John Carman

 

The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture Whose Property

Phyllis Mauch Messenger

 

 Ethical Issues in Archaeology (Society for American Archaeology)

Julie Hollowell-Zimmer

 

 Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade (Cultural Heritage Studies)

NEIL BRODIE, et al

 

Cultural Heritage and Human Rights

Helaine Silverman, D. Fairchild Ruggles

 

 Who Owns Native Culture?

Michael F. Brown

 

 

Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities (Books)

James Cuno 

 

Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu (Books)

Christopher Heaney 

 

The Return of Cultural Treasures (Books)

Jeanette Greenfield, Magnus Magnusson 

 

The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece

Vernon Silver

 

The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums

Peter Watson, Cecilia Todeschini

  

Who Owns the Past?: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law

Kate Fitz Gibbon