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Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums by Sela Adjei, Yann LeGall is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums about?
'Eloquent and powerful ... an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show that colonial conquest was not only about erasing, expropriating, dispossessing, extracting, exploiting, but also looting and trafficking. They make the case for unconditional restitutions and returns' Françoise Vergès, author of A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum 'Brings much-needed diversity to a debate that has for too long focused on a very few cases mainly seen from a European perspective. A great introduction to the history behind the restitution process' Felicity Bodenstein, Lecturer, Sorbonne Université 'By focusing on colonial violence, this book not only reminds us of the nature of colonialism itself, but also of the unabated necessity to continue scrutinising museum collections and work towards restitution' Larissa Förster, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Debates around restitution and decolonising museums continue to rage across the world. Artefacts, effigies and ancestral remains are finally being accurately contextualised and repatriated to their homelands. Fifteen Colonial Thefts amplifies and adds to these discussions,
Who reads Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Sela Adjei, Yann LeGall
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745349534
- Category
- work of fiction