The Brutish Museums : the benin bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution

1. Verfasser: Hicks, Dan, 1972- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London : Pluto Press, 2020.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xvii, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations.
Schlagworte:
Museums > Acquisitions > Moral and ethical aspects.
Museums > Acquisitions > Europe, Western > History.
Museums > Acquisitions > Case studies.
Bronzes > Nigeria > Benin (Kingdom).
Electronic books.
Case studies.
History.
Parallelausgabe: Hicks, Dan, 1972-, Brutish Museums. (Print version:) | ISSN: 0745341764
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface
  • 1. The Gun That Shoots Twice
  • 2. A Theory of Taking
  • 3. Necrography
  • 4. White Projection
  • 5. World War Zero
  • 6. Corporate-Militarist Colonialism
  • 7. War on Terror
  • 8. The Benin-Niger-Soudan Expedition
  • 9. The Sacking of Benin City
  • 10. Democide
  • 11. Iconoclasm
  • 12. Looting
  • 13. Necrology
  • 14. 'The Museum of Weapons, etc.'
  • 15. Chronopolitics
  • 16. A Declaration of War
  • 17. A Negative Moment
  • 18. Ten Thousand Unfinished Events
  • Afterword: A Decade of Returns
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Appendix III
  • Appendix IV
  • Appendix V
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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