Law, Provenance Research, and Restitution of Colonial Cultural Property: Reflections on (In)Equality and a Sri Lankan Object in the Netherlands

Title
Law, Provenance Research, and Restitution of Colonial Cultural Property: Reflections on (In)Equality and a Sri Lankan Object in the Netherlands
Description
The status of colonial objects in European museums touches upon a matrix of legal and historical issues. This article engages with some of them, while referring to the case of a Sri Lankan object in the possession of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RMA) in the Netherlands: a ceremonial cannon looted by the Dutch from the King of Kandy in 1765. The article [...] analyses Sri Lanka's legal title to the cannon, and the discrepancy between the international and mostly Euro-centric legal regime and Sri Lanka's own legal framework.
Creator
Kamardeen, Naazima; van Beurden, Jos
Publisher
Opole : Wydział Prawa i Administracji, Uniwersytet Opolski
Date Issued
2022
Bibliographic Citation
Santander Art & Culture Law Review; Vol. 8 Issue 2 (2022)
Source
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