One of the long established on-line bibliographies on looted antiquities was created by Hugh Jarvis at Buffalo ("Looting Question").
This resource is intended to be provide a comprehensive overview of what is often a controversial topic, for scholarly and classroom use. Coverage is intended to include extreme perspectives as well as more neutral or consensus-seeking views. The list is extensive, with the hope that users will be able to find a range of these items close to hand. While the main focus is on North America, materials from around the world are noted whenever possible (and certainly encouraged). Items are added as they come to my attention or are contributed by others. Annotations are mine except as noted, and are NOT intended to be incendiary. Comments and additions are most welcome!Such a bibliography is helpful and is a useful starting point. There are bound to be some missing items. Among them various works by James Cuno, Peter Watson's Sotheby's: Inside Story and The Medici Conspiracy, or Sharon Waxman's Loot!
I have tried to note some key works on a public list ("Archaeological Ethics") through WorldCat. This list is ongoing and does not pretend to be complete - and tends to relate to books (the purpose of WorldCat). I would welcome further suggestions.
Kimberly Alderman noted Jarvis' list on her Cultural Property and Archaeology Law blog. What has surprised me is the reaction from some: "this site and its bibliography are a disgrace to academic research"; "This is a selective bibliography that leaves out opposing views".
Another bibliography ("Readings") has been posted by the Cultural Property Research Institute (CPRI). The emphasis is different though there is an unevenness. Again where is Peter Watson's Sotheby's: Inside Story and The Medici Conspiracy?
Readers are invited to add other online lists as a comment below.
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It seems anything related to looted antiquities presents enormous problems of honesty and thinking to many. Some will criticize contributions without first reading them and others, no matter what you say or write, will attribute to you views you have not expressed. An American lady has presented my view as one of extreme and uncompromising nationalism. This same person ends her study, calling for reconciliation of divergent views by quoting my statement which she attributes to "anonymous" even though to I sent her the text which she acknowledged at her site.
In the end, we should do what we consider right ,knowing we cannot satisfy all. Kwame.
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Dr. Gill again misses the point. The Buffalo list purports to be a balanced source for students. The CPRI list makes no such claim (or one of comprehensiveness), but it does include many sources reflecting the "archaeology over all perspective," for example those of Atwood, Brodie, Elia, Gerstenblith, etc. It even cites the work of Kimberly Alderman, whose blog this post relates to.
I note that Peter Tompa has now added a further comment to Kimberly's original post: "For a more balanced bibliography, see that provided by the CPRI on its website". What does he mean by "balanced"?
I suspect that many reading lists for undergraduate and graduate students are now hosted on university VLEs along with other teaching materials. Is Jarvis' bibliography a legacy of Web 1.0 use? But is it sensible for one collector / dealer to comment: "this site and its bibliography are a disgrace to academic research"?
Do we need static bibliographies? Or should we be using Web 2.0 technologies to share information?
Another resource is found here although it's unclear if this is still being updated.
For recent studies of the returns from North America to Italy and Greece see Looting Matters.
As I posted at David's site, how about something like the capabilities offered by CiteULike?
http://www.citeulike.org/
For additional bibliography offered by coin-collectors see here.
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