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.
Publisher:
The University of Alabama Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xv, 329 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
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. FrancŒozo -- The vibrancy of "Taino"-themed arts and crafts : identity and symbolism in modern and postmodern Boriken / Jose 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 Valcarcel Rojas, Vernon James Knight, Elena Guarch Rodriguez, 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.
Summary:
"Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, artifact fraud, and illicit trade of archaeological materials"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.