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Hollowell, Julia J.

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"Old things" on the loose*: The legal market for archaeological materials from Alaska's Bering Strait.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Old things" on the loose*: The legal market for archaeological materials from Alaska's Bering Strait./
Author:	Hollowell, Julia J.
Description:	581 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1842.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3133876
ISBN:	9780496811137

"Old things" on the loose*: The legal market for archaeological materials from Alaska's Bering Strait.
Hollowell, Julia J.

"Old things" on the loose*: The legal market for archaeological materials from Alaska's Bering Strait. - 581 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1842.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2004.

This dissertation employs a multi-sited ethnographic approach to trace a legal market in archaeological materials from its origins in Inuit villages along Alaska's Bering Strait to regional tourist markets and cosmopolitan art world centers. This trade centers around St. Lawrence Island where Siberian Yupik residents have for generations recovered walrus tusks, sea mammal bone and ivory artifacts from former habitation sites to sell in one of the most extensive legal markets in archaeological goods in the world today. Sales of these "gifts from the ancestors" help subsistence diggers and their families meet basic economic needs in villages with few employment opportunities and high living expenses. Archaeological goods show up in many forms on the Alaskan tourist market, but the greatest monetary returns come from objects sold to art dealers as "tribal" or "primitive" art. In the eyes of many archaeologists, the commercial use of these archaeological materials represents unethical destruction of irreplaceable information about prehistoric sites and cultures, but not everyone has these priorities.

ISBN: 9780496811137Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

"Old things" on the loose*: The legal market for archaeological materials from Alaska's Bering Strait.
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520 $a I describe subsistence digging on St. Lawrence Island and examine its political and economic contexts. Using ethnohistorical data from early accounts, archives and museum accessions, I then explore entanglements of these values and practices with early regional trade, field collecting, archaeology, and the art market. Finally, I examine the overall structure of this particular market for archaeological goods and the ways people make claims about the meaning and value of these materials as they circulate on regional and global markets. As a study of a legal trade in newly excavated antiquities, my findings challenge the theory that an unrestricted global market in cultural property will reduce archaeological site destruction. I argue that to effectively address the archaeological dilemmas created by prioritizing the economic value of "old things," it is crucial to understand the scope, dynamics, and embeddedness of a particular market, acknowledge the legitimacy of multiple standpoints and value claims, and be willing to critique one's own position and seek common ground with others.
520 $a *"Objects on the Loose" comes from an article by Fred Myers (1999) that discusses a session entitled "Objects at Loose" at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Washington, DC, December 1997. Myers characterized this perspective as "studies of the processes through which objects come to signify [and] are attached to meanings and values" (Myers 1999:264).
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