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Apologies for the very light posting the last five weeks. 

One of the great advantages of teaching is if you are disciplined and get your writing done during the year, the summer is often a time for travel and research.  We’ve had a really terrific summer, travelling and eating our way through Italy, the UK, the flint hills of Kansas, Oaxaca Mexico (where we visited the Rufino Tamayo Prehispanic Museum, and saw this terrific Maya Stele). 

I have a number of posts on these post planned in the coming days, so many thanks for you readership. 

One of the highlights for me of the ARCA Conference earlier this month was the

No posting today, the Spaniel wants a piece of cultural heritage:  a Zulu Coconut. 

Many fellow bloggers have kindly syndicated content from this and other blogs. If you would please use the updated RSS feed for this site, it should use updated content, rather than the post from a couple years back: http://feeds.feedburner.com/IllicitCulturalProperty

For a number of reasons I have routed my feed through feedburner, so you’ll have to use that address, not the general address for this blog.

Neko Case and Anti-Records have teamed up to support Best Friends Animal Society by donating $5 for each and every Blog post and $1 for iLike user that adds her new single, “People Got A Lotta Nerve” to their profile. This runs through February 3, 2009.

Here’s the MP3:

MP3 – Neko Case – People Got A Lotta Nerve

More information can be found on Anti’s Blog: click here 

Hat Tip:  Jill.

Stephen Colbert takes his best shot, and pulls a Steve Wynn…

Apologies for the light posting in recent days. I’m in the process of moving from Aberdeen in Scotland to New Orleans, where I’ll be taking up a teaching fellowship for two years at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. I’ll be continuing my cultural heritage research, and this blog as well, but I’ll also be working on a soon-to-be launched resource coordinated by some very good people at the London School of Economics, which I’ll be talking about as we get closer to launching the site.

Many thanks to all of you who read, and are kind enough to send along articles, your work, and advice. I hope to resume regular posting this week.

Scott Croteau of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette has new of a