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    Looters or Heroes? Production of Illegality and Memories of Looting in Mali.

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    Authors
    Panella, C.
    Discipline
    Sociology
    Subject
    Culture & Society
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2014
    Publisher
    Springer Verlag
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    My paper proposes an ethnographical perspective of the clandestine trade in antiquities in Mali by showing on one side the social organization (techniques, hierarchies, trade chains) of farmers-diggers; on the other side, by analyzing the rhetorics of illegality driven by officially-mandated cultural heritage policies. In particular the paper stresses the function of visuality in the construction of 'illegal' subjects and iconographies of plunder circulated through national and international press. It shows that such an iconic power of images does befog self-representations of farmers-diggers (risk, courage, loneliness) which constitute the ethical cosmos of digging activities. In such a perspective, the debate over the looting of archaeological objects has become a reiterative product of national rhetorics of legality and illegality opposed to narratives of self-representations of marginality and heroization produced by illegal actors.
    Citation
    Panella, C. (2014). Looters or Heroes? Production of Illegality and Memories of Looting in Mali.. , European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research, Vol. Trafficking Cultural Objects, Springer Verlag, ISSN: 0928-1371 (online); 1572-9869 (print), DOI: 10.1007/s10610-014-9251-9.
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    issn: 0928-1371 (online); 1572-9869 (print)
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/2250
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10610-014-9251-9
    url: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10610-014-9251-9
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    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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