SWA # 16

Chimento, Madeline. "Lost Artifacts of the Incas: Cultural Property and the
Repatriation Movement." Loyal Law Review. New Orleans College of Law.
Spring 2008. LexisNexis. Web. 



In this article " Lost Artifacts of the Incas: Cultural Property and the
Repatriation Movement" Madeline Chimento argues internationalism and
nationalism of cultural artifacts. He started by giving a short background about how
this issue began and about the importance of the cultural artifacts. This problem
became diplomatic battle between many countries recently. He thinks those
countries should use negotiation to solve their cultural artifacts problems. Then, the
author wrote about the ways of taking these artifacts from their country of origin
and weather they are legal ways or not. After that, he talked about his main point
which is about nationalism and internationalism of cultural artifacts. He supported
his article from both sides , people who agree with the return theory and people
who disagree. The author thinks both opinions have good arguments, however they
are not effective in this complicated problem.


In this document the author focused a lot about the law side in this issue
I think because it is taken from a law journal. He also talked about negotiation and
agreement with some concessions from both sides as a solution for this problem
which I think it is not fair because if I have right I would not give any concessions to
take it. I think the author is inclined to the internationalism of the cultural artifacts.
I found some good arguments that would help me in my research about the
nationalism, for instance, how the British diplomat bribe Ottoman who was the ruler
of Greece in 1801 to allow him to remove some valuable marbles to his country.
The author also mentioned something that destroys the idea of how safe England
is when he talked about when of the Greek artifacts turned from white to brown
because they used chemical cleaners which affected the artifact.            


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             In this article " Looted cultural relics should be returned", talked about


stealing artifacts movements especially in China. Firstly, he talked about the


importance of the stolen cultural artifacts for their countries of origin. Then, he


mentioned some reasons that those countries have lost their artifacts because. After


that, he gave some statistics about the number of Chinese artifacts that remain in


different museums all around the world. Eventually, he gave some of what officials


from both sides said about this issue. In the end, the writer mentioned his opinion


about those artifacts and said that they should be back to their countries of origin.


                  In my opinion, the writer focused mostly on the return of the artifacts. He


did not discuss the other side's point of view which I think he should have done,


however, his argument was quite strong especially when he used some numbers


and statistics to support his idea of the return. His ideas about the importance of the


cultural artifacts for people in their countries of origin will be helpful for me in my


research. I will use the statistics from this article in my research paper to support the


idea of the great number of the lost artifacts that remain in different countries which


is about the return of the artifacts.