An edition of The Brutish Museums
(2020)
The Brutish Museums
The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Paperback first edition
by Dan Hicks
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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
2021, Pluto Press
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Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
2020, Pluto Press
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Table of Contents
List of Plates. ix
Preface. xii
Preface to the Paperback Edition. xviii
1. The Gun That Shoots Twice. 1
2. A Theory of Taking. 18
3. Necrography. 25
4. White Projection. 37
5. World War Zero. 49
6. Corporate-Militarist Colonialism. 57
7. War on Terror. 79
8. The Benin-Niger-Sudan Expedition. 99
9. The Sacking of Benin City. 109
10. Democide. 115
11. Iconoclasm. 128
13. Necrology. 152
14. 'The Museum of Weapons etc.'. 166
15. Chronopolitics. 178
16. A Declaration of War. 194
17. A Negative Monument. 209
18. Ten Thousand Unfinished Events. 230
Afterword: A Decade of Returns
Appendix 1: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations of Benin Plaques Looted in 1897. 243
Appendix 2: Provenance of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (the 'First Collection'). 245
Appendix 3: Sources of Benin Objects in the Former Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham (the 'Second Collection'). 246
Appendix 4: Current Location of Benin Objects Previously in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection'). 247
Appendix 5: Provisional List of the Museums, Galleries and Collections that May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897. 248
Notes. 253
References. 280
Index. 299
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