The Rescuers : The Remarkable People Who Saved World Heritage

copyright law, racism, and the impact of tourism on fragile cultural sites.What does the act of rescue mean? What is the psychology of those who commit these acts? Should the imperatives of society trump the rights of individuals to control their own legacy? Is more ethical for a museum to preserve cultural treasures or to return them to a tribe that might destroy them? What are the trade offs between economic development and historic preservation? These are the conundrums of today, the challenges of the future.The stories included cover: The Monuments Officers' recovery of cultural treasures stolen by NazisThe saving of Skara Brae in Scotland by the Laird of BrecknessThe rescue of the Iraqi Jewish Archive by Harold Rhode and Doris HamburgTom Cade's preservation of Peregrine falconsLouis Shotridge and George B. Gordon's saving of Alaska's Tlingit cultureThe preservation of American folk songs by John Lomax [Publisher's text]