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Keeping Their Marbles - How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There (Paperback)
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Keeping Their Marbles - How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There (Paperback)
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The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums
are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each
year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or
the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the
objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the
countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The
Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an
iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria,
sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese
Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native
American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains. In Keeping
Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how
western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why
repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates
how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that
have stoked the demands for return. Contrary to the arguments of
campaigners, she shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve
the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history.
Instead, this ground-breaking book makes the case for museums as
centres of knowledge, demonstrating that no object has a single
home, and no one culture owns culture.
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