Foreword / Brian Fagan
Phyllis Mauch Messenger
A philosophical perspective on the ethics and resolution of cultural issues / Karen J. Warren
Ancestral sites, shrines, and graves : Native American perspectives on the ethics of collecting cultural properties / Deborah L. Nichols, Anthony L. Klesert, Roger Anyon
Profiteers and public archaeology : antiquities trafficking in Arkansas / Ann M. Early
The battle for the Maya past : the effects of international looting and collecting in Belize / David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham
Considering the perspective of the victim : the antiquities of Nepal / David Sassoon
The murals of Teotihuacán : a case study of negotiated restitution / Thomas K. Seligman. Commentary : part I / Christy Hohman-Caine
The museum and cultural property : the transformation of institutional ethics / Alan Shestack.

Collecting pre-Columbian art / Gillett G. Griffin
International control efforts : are there any good solutions? / Ellen Herscher
U.S. implementation of the UNESCO Cultural Property Convention / Ann Guthrie Hingston. Commentary : part II / Orrin C. Shane, III
From the collector's perspective : the legality of importing pre-Columbian art and artifacts / Leo J. Harris
What is "stolen"? : the McClain case revisited / Douglas C. Ewing
The need for enforcing regulations on the international art trade / Charles S. Koczka
Cultural property and national sovereignty / Jaime Litvak King. Commentary : part III / Karen J. Warren
Highlights of a round table discussion and some recent developments in the cultural heritage arena / Phyllis Mauch Messenger.

Conclusion : working together to preserve our past / George E. Stuart
Some domestic and international laws and regulations and their enforcers / Charles S. Koczka.