Mackenzie, S. and Davis, T. (2014) Temple looting in Cambodia: anatomy of a statue trafficking network. British Journal of Criminology, 54(5), pp. 722-740. (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azu038)
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Abstract
Qualitative empirical studies of the illicit antiquities trade have tended to focus either on the supply end, through interviews with looters, or on the demand end, through interviews with dealers, museums and collectors. Trafficking of artefacts across borders from source to market has until now been something of an evidential black hole. Here, we present the first empirical study of a statue trafficking network, using oral history interviews conducted during ethnographic criminology fieldwork in Cambodia and Thailand. The data begin to answer many of the pressing but unresolved questions in academic studies of this particular criminal market, such as whether organized crime is involved in antiquities looting and trafficking (yes), whether the traffic in looted artefacts overlaps with the insertion of fakes into the market (yes) and how many stages there are between looting at source and the placing of objects for public sale in internationally respected venues (surprisingly few).
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Davis, Ms Tess and Mackenzie, Professor Simon |
| Authors: | Mackenzie, S., and Davis, T. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
| Journal Name: | British Journal of Criminology |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 0007-0955 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1464-3529 |
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