Peter R Schmidt

Plundering Africa's Past Peter R Schmidt

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: PrefaceThe African Past Endangered, by Peter R. Schmidt and Roderick J. McIntoshThe Human Right to a Cultural Heritage: African Applications, by Peter R. SchmidtSaving the Heritage: UNESCO s Action Against Illicit Traffic in Africa, by Lyndel V. ProttJust Say Shame: Excising the Rot of Cultural Genocide, by Roderick J. McIntoshA View Inside the Illicit Trade in African Antiquities, by Michel BrentThe Fight Against the Plundering of Lalian Cultural Heritage and Illicit Exportation: National Efforts and International Cooperation, by Samuel SidibeU. S. Efforts in the Protection of Cutlural Property: Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, by Maria Papageorge KouroupasAfrica s Vanishing Cultural Heritage: Reflections of an American Cultural Diplomat, by Robert R. LaGammaA Conservation Dilemma over African Royal Art in Cameroon, by Paul Nchoji NkwiPast as Prologues: Empowering AFrica s Cultural Institutions, by Henry John drewalNigerian Art as Endangered Specia, by Dele JegedeCoping with Collapse in the 1990s: West African Museums, Universities, and National Partimonies, by Merrick PosnanskyHow Accurate Are Interpretations of African Objects in Western Museums?, by Francis B. MusondaWhose Cultural Heritage? Conflicts and Contradictions in the Conservation of Historic Structures, Towns, and Rock Art in Tanzania, by Amini Aza MturiThe Deterioration and Destruction of Archaeological and Historical Sites in Tanzania, by N. J. KaromaKenya s Destruction of the Swahili Cultural Heritage, by C. KusimbaPreservation of Cultural Heritage on the East African Coast, by Thomas H. Wilson and Athman Lali OmarStarting from scratch: The Past, Present, and future Management of Somalia s Cultural Heritage, by steven A. brandt and Osman Yusuf MohamedIndex"Biographical Note: PETER R. SCHMIDT is the former Director of the Center for African Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. RODERICK J. MCINTOSH is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Publisher Marketing:"An important book at a time when the booming illicit trade in African antiquities and the despoiling of some of the continent s prime archeological sites generate little concern in the art world." Foreign Affairs"This benchmark publication challenges all of us to be part of the solution. Plundering Africa s Past cannot help but raise the level of discourse and consciousness about the looting problem, what needs to be done to stop it and about the relationship between Africa and the West." African Studies Review"Plundering Africa s Past should be required reading for all archaeologists, historians, art historians, museum curators, and government officials involved in the cultural heritages of Africa, as well as most countries and continents with a disappearing past." H-Net Book ReviewAfrican government and museum officials, members of international agencies, academics, and journalists examine why the African past is disappearing at a rate perhaps unmatched in any other part of the world. Each looks at the international network of looting and trafficking from a different perspective. Here, for the first time, is a frank indictment of African contributions to the problem voiced by the distinguished African essayists. The book concludes with a discussion of specific steps that could halt the disappearance of Africa s art and antiquities." Contributor Bio:  McIntosh, Roderick J Roderick J. McIntosh is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and visiting Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His recent publications include The Peoples of Middle Niger: Island of Gold (1998), The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action (2000) and Geomorphology and Human Palaeoecology of the Mema, Mali (2005).