How (Not) to Protect the Past? Heritage Protection Efforts and

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_8351
dc.contributor.author	Galanakis Yannis
dc.title	How (Not) to Protect the Past? Heritage Protection Efforts and Power Struggles in Early Modern Greece
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper revisits the early protection measures taken with regards to the safeguarding of antiquities in Greece in the 1820s and 1830s and the ensuing power struggles. The focus is on ‘control’ and ‘ownership’, two major issues that shaped the nineteenth-century cultural politics of the country. It is argued that the 1834 law, that emerged out of these debates, is best understood as a crypto-colonial contraption. It gave the allusion to people and state officials of cultural and territorial integrity and control, when actually it facilitated local and international actors to thrive – licitly and illicitly – in the antiquities trade in the long nineteenth century.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sapere l’Europa, sapere d’Europa
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-06-21
dc.dateAccepted	2022-06-03
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-04-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-624-4/how-not-to-protect-the-past-heritage-protection-ef/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-623-7/008
dc.identifier.issn	2611-0040
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9247
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-716-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-623-7
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Classical antiquity
dc.subject	Greece
dc.subject	Heritage protection
dc.subject	Legislation
dc.subject	National identity

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How (Not) to Protect the Past? Heritage Protection Efforts and Power Struggles in Early Modern Greece

Yannis Galanakis University of Cambridge, UK

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This paper revisits the early protection measures taken with regards to the safeguarding of antiquities in Greece in the 1820s and 1830s and the ensuing power struggles. The focus is on ‘control’ and ‘ownership’, two major issues that shaped the nineteenth-century cultural politics of the country. It is argued that the 1834 law, that emerged out of these debates, is best understood as a crypto-colonial contraption. It gave the allusion to people and state officials of cultural and territorial integrity and control, when actually it facilitated local and international actors to thrive – licitly and illicitly – in the antiquities trade in the long nineteenth century.

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June 21, 2022

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June 3, 2022

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April 26, 2022

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978-88-6969-716-6

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978-88-6969-623-7

Keywords: Classical antiquity • Legislation • Greece • Heritage protection • National identity

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