Description: This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales of antiquities from pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, which are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market.
Brief description: Cara G. Tremain is an instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Langara College.
Review Quotes:
"The book's fresh insights break new paths of research in archaeological looting, the antiquities trade, and national and international heritage law."--Anthropology Book Forum
"An insightful and fascinating exploration. . . . Offers a cutting-edge analysis of the antiquities market that should be of interest to archaeologists, museum professionals, and art historians as well as criminologists and sociologists."--Hispanic American Historical Review