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[Antiquities] Trafficking Gangs Operate in Bolivia (La Razon, in English)
(the second installment of my translations of the wonderful feature that La Razón has put together on cultural property crime in Bolivia) Trafficking Gangs Operate in Bolivia This year there were two...
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Spain to ‘restore’ silver from Odyssey Marine case to Bolivia…but why?
Many of you have been following the odyssey of Odyssey Marine for some time. It is high drama between a commercial salvage company and Spain that played out in US courts. Out of the controversy...
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“Community Justice” and Cultural Property: Very preliminary thoughts
During southern hemisphere winter in 2005 I was working in a Bolivian village. One weekday morning the church bells starting ringing. The only other time that had happened, a building was on fire and...
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Demand for Colonial Bolivian Silver Objects: Melt it down? Sell it on?
Compiling information on South American church theft is really quite interesting. The legal side was/is quite easy. The objects fall squarely into the cultural patrimony legal framework and the only...
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The Virgin of Copacabana has been looted
On Monday 22 of April the gold and silver accessories of the Virgin of Copacabana were robbed.I cannot emphasise how important the Virgin of Copacabana is and has been to Bolivia. She was the...
View ArticleHigh Crimes: Studying the Illicit Antiquities Trade in the Bolivian Andes
Yesterday I participated in the Day of Archaeology. I and several hundred others like me wrote about what our life and job are like on one day. Here is an excerpt: Although I am a trained field...
View ArticleChurch Theft, Insecurity, and Community Justice
I’ve just had a new paper published in the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research: my first criminology publication! In this piece I challenge the idea of ‘source end’ regulation of the...
View ArticleIllicit antiquities trade, basic assertions
Here is a taster from the draft of a book chapter I am working on. Tentatively called: Pot plunderers, mummy mailers, silver smugglers, and virgin vandals: regulating the illicit trade in Bolivian...
View ArticleCultural guardian confronts the looters, a profile of…me.
*Blush*/*Shameless self promotion* Times Higher Education has done a feature on me for part of their Research at the Edge series. Check out Cultural guardian confronts the looters by Chris Havergal....
View ArticlePreventing Protection: On-the-ground barriers to effective cultural property...
My presentation for the European Association of Archaeologists, Sep 2015. The paper that this presentation represents will be in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Cultural Property.
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