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museums, colonialsim, repatriation, restoration, Benin bronzes, art, Museums, Acquisitions, Moral and ethical aspects, History, Case studies, Bronzes, Violence against, Colonialism, Ethnic Violence, Ethics, Musées, Acquisition, Aspect moral, Histoire, Cas, Études dePlaces
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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
2021, Pluto Press
Paperback
in English
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0745346227 9780745346229
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Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
2020, Pluto Press
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0745341764 9780745341767
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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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