ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mogao Caves
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Past helps us build an identity and appreciate our history. Museums helps deliver the message of our identity (this is the mission of museums) Value of the past is so important many countries use their cultural heritage on their currency (ex. Be a leader for the natural and cultural worlds. Serve as a forum to contribute to a better future. Feel the energy the government and what they want to portray through museums. Many sites being loved to death (mogao caves in china, stonehenge) Past is shared, however we share the knowledge but who owns the actual objects. Repatriations involves a complex web of legal, ethical and moral issues. Solution could lie in compromise collaboration, and acquiescence. Acquiesce in the return if very recent remains of identifiable ancestors of living people. Crm = cultural resource management the practice known as applied archaeology. Goal is to preserve past resources because when they are lost, they"re lost forever.
