Publication on antiquities trade

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    Trade in Antiquities: Reducing Destruction and Theft
    By Patrick J. O'Keefe
    ISBN 1-873132-31 X
    134pp. Price : 16.50 pounds sterling

In May 1994, the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the
Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin or Its
Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation recommended that the
Director-General of UNESCO be invited to have specialised studies
made by experts to clarify issues in cultural objects that are
disputed or unclear.  This report on the antiquities trade is the
first such study.  Collectors (both public and private), dealers,
archaeologists, conservators and other specialists around the world
were consulted either in person or by correspondence during its
preparation.

Patrick J. O'Keefe has specialised for the past twenty years in
heritage law and management.  He is the author of over 100 books,
reports and articles on the subject and is a member of many
international expert bodies.  Now acting as consultant and author,
he previously had a distinguished career in the Australian Public
Service and at the University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Collecting and controversy
    Interests
        Archaeologists
        Impoverished local populations
        Indigenous peoples
        Dealers and auction houses
        Art historians
        Collectors
        Public
    The problem with trade and collecting
    Sources of antiquities
        Collections
        Monuments
        Finds
        Legal restrictions
        Market demands
        Destruction
        Theft from collections
        Protecting the sources
    Reducing destruction and theft Controls
        State ownership
        Standards of behaviour
        Databases
    Changing the market
        Render collecting anti-social
        Render certain collecting anti-social
        Reduce taxation incentives
        Trade incentives
        Financial assistance
        Increase volume flow
        Collections
        Chance finds
        New excavations
        Export restrictions
    Changing the law
        Limitations
        Secrecy
    Education and publicity
        Education of professionals
        Education and local populations
        Education of the public
        Education of special groups
        Publicity
        UNESCO support
        Codes of Ethics
        Investigations
        Co-operation
    Primacy of information retrieval
    Conclusion
    Selected bibliography
    Appendices
        I:    Extract from 'Canada's Cultural Property Export and
              Import Act: The Experience of Protecting Cultural
              Property'
        II:   IADAA Code of Ethics and Practice
        III:  British Code of Practice for the Control of
              International Trading in Works of Art
        IV:   UNESCO Draft Code of Ethics for Dealers in Cultural
              Property
        V:    Code of Ethics for Professionals Concerned With the
              Antiquities of the Near and Middle East
        VI:   Loans and Acquisitions of Archaeological Objects by
              Museums (The Berlin Declaration 1988)
        VII.  Principles for Partnership in Cross-Cultural Human
              Sciences Research with a Particular View to
              Archaeology
        VIII: Extract from 'The Good Collector and the Premise of
              Mutual Respect Among Nations'

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