Consists of essays pubilshed in various sources between 2000 and 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural property internationalism / John Henry Merryman -- On defining the cultural heritage / Janet Blake -- The expanding purview of cultural properties and their politics / Rosemary J. Coombe -- The politics of preservation : privileging one heritage over another / Jonathan S. Bell -- Nature and culture : a new World Heritage context / Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo and Frits Pannekoek -- World Heritage and rights-based approaches to nature conservation / Gonzalo Oviedo and Tatjana Puschkarsky -- Informal settlements and urban heritage landscapes in South Africa / Lindsay M. Weiss -- Sir, how much is that Ming vase in the window? / Protecting cultural relics in the People's Republic of China / Michael L. Dutra --2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage / Sarah Dromgoole -- Heritage trouble : recent work on the protection of intangible cultural property / Michael F. Brown -- The UNESCO concept of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage : its background and Marrakchi roots / Thomas M. Schmitt -- Indigenous cultural heritage in development and trade : perspectives from the dynamics of cultural heritage law and policy / Rosemary J. Coombe with Joseph F. Turcotte -- Indigenous cultural landscapes and the politics of heritage / Melissa F. Baird -- Resolving material culture disputes : human rights, property rights and crimes against humanity / Robert K. Paterson -- Controlling the international market in antiquities : reducing the harm, preserving the past / Patty Gerstenblith-- The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict : the practice of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / Hirad Abtah -- The obligation to prevent and avoid destruction of cultural heritage : from Bamiyan to Iraq / Francesco Francioni and Federico Lenzerini -- Post-conflict heritage and tourism in Cambodia : the burden of Angkor / Tim Winter -- Changing climate, changing culture : adding the climate change dimension to the protection of intangible cultural heritage / Hee-Eun Kim -- The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Expressions : building a new world information and communication order? / Rachael Craufurd Smith -- The Human human genome as common heritage : common sense or legal nonsense? / Pilar N. Ossorio -- Cultural heritage rights : from ownership and descent to justice and well-being / Ian Hodder.