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This volume is at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of the field . The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and how it frames vital issues of national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the national archive.

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