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Returning Southeast Asia's Past : Objects, Museums, and Restitution /

The last 150 years has seen extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage. Art objects from the region were distributed to museums and private collections around the world. But in the 21st century, power relations are shifting, a new awareness is growing, and n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ardiyansyah, Panggah (Editor ), Tythacott, Louise (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : NUS Press, National University of Singapore, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: collecting and returning Southeast Asia's past
  • Part I. Artefact ownership. 2. The Selling of Khmer Artefacts during the Colonial Era: Questioning the Perception of Khmer Heritage through a Study of Traded Khmer Art Pieces (1920s-1940s) ; 3. The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen Statues ; 4. Who Owns Ban Chiang? The Discovery, Collection and Repatriation of Ban Chiang Artefacts
  • Part II. Object biographies and colonial legacies. 5. On the Road Back to Mandalay: The Burmese Regalia - Seizure, Display and Return to Myanmar in 1964 ; 6. Bridging the Missing Gaps: The Politics of Display at the Ð?ng Duong Buddhist Art Gallery ; 7. Restitution and National Heritage: (Art) Historical Trajectories of Raden Saleh's Paintings ; 8. Returns by the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 2010s and the 1970s
  • Part III. Museums, Restitution, and Cultural Identities. 9. The Return of Cultural Property and National Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia ; 10. Plaibat: Reclaiming Heritage, Social Media, and Modern Nationalism ; 11. Myanmar, Museums, and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage.