{"product_id":"the-brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution","title":"The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution","description":"Winner of the 2021 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award\n\n\"If you care about museums and the world, read this book\"—New York Times\n\"Urgent, lucid, and brilliantly enraged…a long-awaited treatise on justice.\"—New York Review of Books\n\"A real game-changer.\"—The Economist\n\"A bombshell.\"—Los Angeles Times\n\nThe Brutish Museums sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation, and the decolonization of museums. Since its first publication, museums across the western world have begun to return their Bronzes to Nigeria, heralding a new era in the way we understand the objects of empire we once took for granted.\n\nWalk into any western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date, and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.\n\nFew artifacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes--a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum, and countless private collections.\n\nThe Brutish Museums sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation, and the decolonization of museums. Since its first publication, museums across the western world have begun to return their Bronzes to Nigeria, heralding a new era in the way we understand the objects of empire we once took for granted.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0745346227\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0745346227.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hicks, Dan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41499433467962,"sku":"DBV.0745346227.G","price":8.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0745346227-0.jpg?v=1783029599","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}