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Africa Fights To Reclaim Lost Art, Artifacts


Inspired by a presentation at the Institute of European Ethnology in Munich yesterday about exploitation of Jewish Art, I became more interested in the subject and just by case found a brand new article of National Geographic News of June 12th.

"The case is hardly uncommon. Africa has for years been losing its cultural heritage to looters, dealers, and sometimes even tourists looking for unusual souvenirs. The problem has become so severe that some types of African traditional and sacred objects have vanished completely from the continent, ending up in museums, universities, or private collections outside the continent."


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Related : the International council of museums (ICOM) has issued, back in 1997, a « red list of categories of African archaeological objects particularly at risk from looting » ( http://icom.museum/redlist/redlistafrica.html ) and, in conjunction with AFRICOM ( http://www.african-museums.org/ ) provides guidelines for a better documentation of collections in african museums ( http://icom.museum/afridoc/ ) .

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Thanx, tomitom, for the additional information and links. Very interesting! Cheers!!!

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