The story of how the museums of the West acquired their fabulous collections, from the Benin Bronzes to Native American sacred objects, and why they should not by returned to the lands -- or the people -- from which they came.
The story of how the museums of the West acquired their fabulous collections, from the Benin Bronzes to Native American sacred objects, and why they should not by returned to the lands -- or the people -- from which they came.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tiffany Jenkins is an author, academic, broadcaster, and consultant on cultural policy. Her writing credits include the Independent, the Art Newspaper, the Guardian, the Scotsman (for which she was a weekly columnist on social and cultural issues) and the Spectator. She is an Honorary Fellow in Department of Art History at the University of Edinburgh; a former visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and was previously the director of the Arts and Society Programme at the Institute of Ideas. She competed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Kent and divides her time between London and Edinburgh. She has advised a number of organisations on cultural policy, including Trinity College, Dublin; English Heritage; the British Council; the Norwegian government; the University of Oslo; Norwegian Theatres and Orchestras; and the National Touring Network for Performing Arts, Norway.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction PART I 1: Great Explorers and Curious Collectors 2: The Birth of the Public Museum 3: Antiquity Fever 4: Cases of Loot PART II 5: Museum Wars 6: Who Owns Culture? 7: The Rise of Identity Museums 8: Atonement: Making Amends for Past Wrongs 9: Burying Knowledge: The Fate of Human Remains Concluding Thoughts Notes Further Reading Index
Introduction PART I 1: Great Explorers and Curious Collectors 2: The Birth of the Public Museum 3: Antiquity Fever 4: Cases of Loot PART II 5: Museum Wars 6: Who Owns Culture? 7: The Rise of Identity Museums 8: Atonement: Making Amends for Past Wrongs 9: Burying Knowledge: The Fate of Human Remains Concluding Thoughts Notes Further Reading Index
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