Dan Hicks
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Dan Hicks
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
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A call for western museums to wash their hands of colonial blood
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Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Seitenzahl: 368
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 620g
- ISBN-13: 9780745341767
- ISBN-10: 0745341764
- Artikelnr.: 59544443
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Seitenzahl: 368
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 620g
- ISBN-13: 9780745341767
- ISBN-10: 0745341764
- Artikelnr.: 59544443
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. His award-winning research focuses on decolonisation in art and culture, and academic disciplines, and on the role of cultural whiteness in ongoing histories of colonial violence and dispossession.
List of Plates
Preface
Preface to the Paperback Edition
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 1: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations Of Benin Plaques
Looted in 1897
Appendix 2: Provenance of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
(the 'First Collection')
Appendix 3: Sources of Benin Objects in the Former Pitt-Rivers Museum,
Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
Appendix 4: Current Location of Benin Objects Previously in the Pitt-Rivers
Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
Appendix 5: A Provisional List of Museums, Galleries and Collections that
May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897
Notes
References
Index
Preface
Preface to the Paperback Edition
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 1: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations Of Benin Plaques
Looted in 1897
Appendix 2: Provenance of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
(the 'First Collection')
Appendix 3: Sources of Benin Objects in the Former Pitt-Rivers Museum,
Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
Appendix 4: Current Location of Benin Objects Previously in the Pitt-Rivers
Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
Appendix 5: A Provisional List of Museums, Galleries and Collections that
May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897
Notes
References
Index
List of Plates
Preface
Preface to the Paperback Edition
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 1: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations Of Benin Plaques
Looted in 1897
Appendix 2: Provenance of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
(the 'First Collection')
Appendix 3: Sources of Benin Objects in the Former Pitt-Rivers Museum,
Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
Appendix 4: Current Location of Benin Objects Previously in the Pitt-Rivers
Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
Appendix 5: A Provisional List of Museums, Galleries and Collections that
May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897
Notes
References
Index
Preface
Preface to the Paperback Edition
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 1: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations Of Benin Plaques
Looted in 1897
Appendix 2: Provenance of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
(the 'First Collection')
Appendix 3: Sources of Benin Objects in the Former Pitt-Rivers Museum,
Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
Appendix 4: Current Location of Benin Objects Previously in the Pitt-Rivers
Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
Appendix 5: A Provisional List of Museums, Galleries and Collections that
May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897
Notes
References
Index







