Book Reviews
A Museum’s Worker Take on Repatriations
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Lyonel Perabo reviews “The Museum of Other People” by Adam Kuper and uses his experiences as a museum guide to consider the problems of repatriating artifacts and artworks.
Angkor Wat
Looted relics, including a monumental statue of Ganesha, to be returned to Cambodia
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A collection of 28 Cambodian artifacts, including what may be a famous statue of Ganesha, are returning home after being surrendered by Netscape founder James H. Clark.
Paganism
Indigenous Taino protest artifacts sold by Christie’s
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The sale of Taino artifacts and cultural items by Christie’s draws protests and public outcry.
American Indian
Returning the artifacts of ancestors
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The increasing demands for the repatriation of artifacts of ancestors and the intersection with the season of Ancestor veneration.
Paganism
Column: Do Gods Belong in Museums?
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While working in Tromsø’s Polar Museum, Lyonel Perabo considers the way Pagan relics are kept behind museum walls – and how modern Pagans might bring new life into those objects.