Real, recent, or replica : Precolumbian Caribbean heritage as art, commodity, and inspiration

Real, recent, or replica : Precolumbian Caribbean heritage as art, commodity, and inspiration / edited by Joanna Ostapkowicz and Jonathan A. Hanna ; foreword by Peter E. Siegel ; epilogue by L. Antonio Curet.

"Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, artifact fraud, and illicit trade of archaeological materials"--

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ostapkowicz, Joanna (Editor), Hanna, Jonathan A., 1984- (Editor), Siegel, Peter E. (writer of foreword.), Curet, L. Antonio, 1960- (writer of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]
Series:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
Subjects:
Indian art > Caribbean Area.
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Reproductions > Caribbean Area.
Cultural property > Protection > Caribbean Area.
Forgery of antiquities > Caribbean Area.
Authentication.
Caribbean Area > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Precolumbian Caribbean heritage in flux, the old and the not so old / Joanna Ostapkowicz and Jonathan A. Hanna
  • Caribbean indigenous art past, present, future : the view from the greater Antilles / Joanna Ostapkowicz
  • Archaeological heritage market and museums in the Dominican Republic / Arlene Alvarez, Corinne L. Hofman, and Mariana C. Franc̦ozo
  • The vibrancy of "Taino"-themed arts and crafts : identity and symbolism in modern and postmodern Borikén / José R.Oliver
  • Jamaican cultural material : pilfered and forged / Lesley-Gail Atkinson Swaby
  • Spice Isle sculptures : antiquities and iconography in Grenada, West Indies / Jonathan A. Hanna
  • Genuine reproductions : ethics, practicalities, and problems in creating a replica of a zemi from Carriacou, Grenada, West Indies / John G. Swogger
  • Fake, copies, and replicas in Cuban archaeology / Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Vernon James Knight, Elena Guarch Rodríguez, and Menno L.P. Hoogland
  • "Seem[ing] authentic[ity] : Irving Rouse on forgeries, a museological perspective / Joanna Ostapkowicz and Roger Colten
  • Authenticity, preservation, and care in Central American indigenous material culture / Alexander Geurds
  • Reducing the market for illicit cultural objects : the Caribbean and beyond / Donna Yates
  • Epilogue: Real, recent, replica (Confessions of an archaeologist/curator/Puerto Rican) / L. Antonio Curet.

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