| Descript |
xvii, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (colour) 24 cm |
| Summary |
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.?Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections.?The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism. |
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Museer
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Museisamlingar
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Samlarverksamhet
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Imperialism
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Kolonier
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Beninsk konst
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Bronsarbeten
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Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Museums -- Acquisitions -- Europe, Western -- History
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Museums -- Acquisitions -- Case studies
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Bronzes -- Nigeria -- Benin (Kingdom)
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Libraries and Museums
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Benin
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| ISBN |
9780745341767 Hardback |
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9781786806840 (EPUB eBook) |
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9781786806833 (PDF eBook) |
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9781786806857 (Kindle eBook) |
| Class. |
069.4
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