# Material and Interpretive Custody Material and interpretive custody is Bryant McGill's distinction between caring for a historical object and maintaining the capacity to explain its meaning. [[wiki/Greece|Greece]] remains the sovereign steward of the [[wiki/Acropolis of Athens|Acropolis]]. Archives, scholarship, education, media, and increasingly machine reference systems influence how distant audiences encounter that site. Stewardship of the stone and stewardship of its interpretation can cooperate without becoming the same authority. In [[wiki/Neo-Westernism|neo-Westernism]], McGill argues for a Greek–American partnership across these tasks. It is an argument about prospective cultural and technical work, not evidence of a formal transfer of Greek heritage or a claim that any current AI system understands antiquity. ## Related [[wiki/Hellenic Cultural Inheritance|Hellenic Cultural Inheritance]] · [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] · [[wiki/Generative Canon|Generative Canon]] · [[wiki/Greece-United States Alliance|Greece–United States Alliance]]