<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><rec-number>8824</rec-number><ref-type>Journal Article</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schrag, Brian</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ethical Obligations of Museum Trustees and the Looting of Our Collective Heritage </style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Applied Philosophy</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">art</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Artifact</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ethics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Museum Studies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Obligation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">professional responsibilities</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">property</style></keyword></keywords><taxonomies><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Museum Studies</style></taxonomy></taxonomies><pubtype><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal Article</style></pubtype><audience-level><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">grad</style></audience-level><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spring 2007</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philosophy Documentation Center </style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">21</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">73-87</style></pages><issn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0739-098X</style></issn><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Museums have a long history and practice of trafficking in looted antiquities. An account of the moral mission of museums and the moral obligations of museum trustees is given. Based on that account, a moral critique of the actions of museums and their trustees is provided, addressing some of the rationales that museums and their trustees have offered for justifying this activity of trafficking. Some of the rationale examined involves arguments regarding collective responsibility. It is argued that the loss of provenance and provenience resulting from this practice is a particularly significant moral harm done to humanity as a whole. I argue that it is a mistake to categorize human remains and cultural artifacts as property and doing so is one source of the morally problematic activity</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record></records></xml>