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In truth, there is much to censure and correct in the record that begins with Columbus. U.S. textbooks are just beginning to give proper emphasis to pre-Columbian cultures. Sale's iconoclastic biography is as one-sided as a lawyer's brief, but the evidence of European disdain for the...
Just 10 days earlier, the laboratory cultures had all contained the same number of microscopic cancer cells. Now even an untutored eye could tell the difference. Globs of wildly dividing cell colonies filled half the flasks, while in the others the cells refused to multiply. Reason: a research team, led...
While the musuem should be lauded for deciding to return these artifacts, the phrase "held in trust"--which appeared in the September 21 issue of the Harvard Gazette--reflects the persistent and troubling assumption that museums and collectors have certain inalienable rights to the works of art they hold. This...
But possession alone does not justify the retention of all these works. Museums at Harvard and elsewhere need to consider returning art pieces to the cultures that created them.
The policies of England, the United States and other world powers during the imperialist era often produced the economic and political turmoil in non-Western cultures that devalued their art. As a result, Western collectors could buy art object cheaply, or simply take them. At the same time, these collectors...