The Brutish Museums
Subtitle: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Edition: Paperback first edition
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780745346229
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Museums
Other titles: Brutish Museums
Table of contents: label: List of Plates
title: ix; label: Preface
title: xii; label: Preface to the Paperback Edition
title: xviii; label: 1. The Gun That Shoots Twice
title: 1; label: 2. A Theory of Taking
title: 18; label: 3. Necrography
title: 25; label: 4. White Projection
title: 37; label: 5. World War Zero
title: 49; label: 6. Corporate-Militarist Colonialism
title: 57; label: 7. War on Terror
title: 79; label: 8. The Benin-Niger-Sudan Expedition
title: 99; label: 9. The Sacking of Benin City
title: 109; label: 10. Democide
title: 115; label: 11. Iconoclasm
title: 128; label: 13. Necrology
title: 152; label: 14. 'The Museum of Weapons etc.'
title: 166; label: 15. Chronopolitics
title: 178; label: 16. A Declaration of War
title: 194; label: 17. A Negative Monument
title: 209; label: 18. Ten Thousand Unfinished Events
title: 230; title: Afterword: A Decade of Returns; label: Appendix 1: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations of Benin Plaques Looted in 1897
title: 243; label: Appendix 2: Provenance of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (the 'First Collection')
title: 245; label: Appendix 3: Sources of Benin Objects in the Former Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
title: 246; label: Appendix 4: Current Location of Benin Objects Previously in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection')
title: 247; label: Appendix 5: Provisional List of the Museums, Galleries and Collections that May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897
title: 248; label: Notes
title: 253; label: References
title: 280; label: Index
title: 299