The brutish museums : the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution / Dan Hicks.
By: Hicks, Dan [author.]
.Publisher: London : Pluto Press, 2021Edition: Paperback edition.Description: xxii, 345 pages, 16 pages of colour plates : illustrations (colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745346229; 9780745341767; 9781786806833; 9781786806840.Subject(s): Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects | Museums -- Acquisitions -- Europe, Western -- History | Museums -- Acquisitions -- Case studies | Bronzes -- Nigeria -- Benin (Kingdom) | Benin Punitive Expedition, Nigeria, 1897 | Nigeria -- History -- 1851-1899DDC classification: 069.4 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | Millbank Dewey | 069.4 HIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020371 |
First published in 2020. Paperback edition (with new preface) published 2021.
A gun that shoots twice -- A theory of taking -- Necrography -- White projection -- World War Zero -- Corporate-militarist colonialism -- War on terror -- The Benin-Niger-Soudan expedition -- The sacking of Benin City -- Democide -- Iconoclasm -- Looting -- Necrology -- 'The Museum of Weapons, etc.' -- Chronopolitics -- A declaration of war -- A negative movement -- 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.