Second installment of my translations of a feature the La Razón published on cultural property crime in Bolivia
Sad comments by Cleveland Museum curator: A looted Wari pouch ‘symbolizes the entire exhibition’
Posted on 6 November 2012
Remember that unprovenienced and underprovenanced Wari hide pouch
Relics for Sale at Tiwanaku [Bolivia, from La Razón]
Posted on 5 November 2012
My own (horribly flawed, terrible, I am sure) translation
Maya Murals, Mercury, and Risk
Posted on 30 October 2012
It seems like Maya tomb news is coming hot and heavy these past few weeks.
Images of historic looting
Posted on 26 October 2012
Emotional images of the looting of a Maya temple.
A new/old colleague: Trafficking Culture gets Cambodia’d
Posted on 14 October 2012
The Trafficking Culture project have hired Tess Davis
Replica Monuments and Warrior Queens in Guatemala
Posted on 13 October 2012
I was delighted to hear that David Friedel, Juan Carlos Pérez, and their team have discovered a tomb at El Perú-Waka’
Guatemala: Masks, Church Stuff, and a False Divide
Posted on 2 October 2012
Guatemala has been the site of many of my most vivid dreams and imaginings.
Valdivia Figurines and the appeal of ‘the oldest’
Posted on 19 September 2012
The logo for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture website is about my favourite thing
Introducing the Trafficking Culture Website
Posted on 22 August 2012
Finally, finally I get to show you folks the website for the University of Glasgow’s Trafficking Culture project!
More on pouches, pots, and my skewed perceptions
Posted on 18 August 2012
Thinking more about yesterday’s Wari pouch post
Other antiquities on the Cleveland Museum website!
Posted on 17 August 2012
Lately the interwebs have been abuzz with news of the Cleveland Museum acquiring a Roman portrait head and a Maya pot