Publications
The following is a reference list of academic publications written by members and Friends of the Trafficking Culture project. Publications are listed in reverse date order (i.e. newest at the top). Downloadable pdf files are present when available. Further details about these publications can be viewed by clicking on their respective titles. We ask that anyone using this material cites it appropriately.
Tsirogiannis, C. (2016), ‘False Closure? Known Unknowns in Repatriated Antiquities Cases’, International Journal of Cultural Property 23(4): 407–431.
Yates, D. (2016), ‘The Global Traffic in Looted Cultural Objects’, in Rafter, N. and Carribine, E. (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Tsirogiannis, C. (2016), ‘Prompt in Theory and Delay in Practice: a case study in museum ethics’. AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology 6: 12-25.
Brodie, N. (2016), ‘Scholarly Engagement with Collections of Unprovenanced Ancient Texts’, in Almqvist, K. and L. Belfrage (eds), Cultural Heritage at Risk (Stockholm: Ax:son Johnson Foundation), 123–142.
Tsirogiannis, C. (2016), “Mapping the Supply: Usual Suspects and Identified Antiquities in ‘Reputable’ Auction Houses in 2013”, Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología 25 (2015): 107–144.
Mackenzie, S. & Yates, D. (2016) ‘Collectors on illicit collecting: Higher loyalties and other techniques of neutralization in the unlawful collecting of rare and precious orchids and antiquities’, Theoretical Criminology, 20(3): 340–357.
Tsirogiannis, C. (2016), ‘Attitudes in Transit: Symes Material from Market to Source’. Journal of Art Crime. Spring. 79–86.
Tsirogiannis, C. (2016), ‘Reasons to Doubt: Misleading Assertions in the London Antiquities Market’, Journal of Art Crime. Spring. 67–72.
Tsirogiannis, C. & C. Tsirogiannis (2016), ‘Uncovering the Hidden Routes: Algorithms for Identifying Paths and Missing Links in Trade Networks’, in Brughmans, T., Collar, A. & Coward, F. (eds.) The Connected Past: Challenges to Network Studies in Archaeology and History ( Oxford: Oxford University Press) 103–120.
Brodie, N. (2015), “Archaeological and Criminological Approaches to Studying the Antiquities Trade: A Comparison of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre and the Trafficking Culture Project”, Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología 25: 99–215
Tsirogiannis, C. (2015), ‘”Due Diligence”? Christie’s antiquities auction, London, October 2015’, Journal of Art Crime, Fall: 27–37.
Brodie, N. (2015), ‘The Internet Market in Antiquities’, in F. Desmarais ed. Countering Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods: The Global Challenge of Protecting the World’s Heritage (Paris: ICOM).
Yates, D. (2015), ‘Illicit Cultural Property from Latin America: Looting, Trafficking, and Sale’, in F. Desmarais ed. Countering Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods: The Global Challenge of Protecting the World’s Heritage (Paris: ICOM).
Brodie, N. (2015), “Why is No One Talking about Libya’s Cultural Destruction”, Near Eastern Archaeology 78(3): 212–217.
Mackenzie, S. (2015), ‘Do we need a Kimberley Process for the Illicit Antiquities Trade? Some lessons to learn from a comparative review of transnational crimeinal markets and their regulation’, in F. Desmarais ed. Countering Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods: The Global Challenge of Protecting the World’s Heritage (Paris: ICOM).
Yates, D. (2016) ‘Museums, collectors, and value manipulation: tax fraud through donation of antiquities’. Journal of Financial Crime 23(1)
Panella, C. (2015), ‘Lost in translation. ‘Unprovenanced objects’ and the opacity/transparency agenda of museums’ policies’. ANUAC 4(1): 66–87
Yates, D. (2015), ‘Value and doubt’: The persuasive power of “authenticity” in the antiquities market’. PARSE 2: 71–84.
Brodie, N. (2015), ‘Syria and its Regional Neighbors: A Case of Cultural Property Protection Policy Failure?’, International Journal of Cultural Property 22 (2–3): 317–335.