The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new
contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural
property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional
perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry.
The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage
a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in
different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of
national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural
heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state
and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural
rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the
national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from
anthropology, archaeology, law, Indigenous studies, history, folklore
studies, and policy, this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens
our understanding of this issue of growing importance. This
comprehensive and coherent statement of cultural property issues will be
of great interest to cultural sector professionals and policy makers, as
well as students and academic researchers engaged with cultural property
in a variety of disciplines.
