The Brutish Museums : The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution.
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TextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (385 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
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- 9781786806833
- 069.4
Cover -- Contents -- 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 I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Appendix IV -- Appendix V -- Notes -- References -- Index.
The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum.
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