Fifteen Colonial Thefts A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums

'Eloquent and powerful' - Francoise VergesDebates 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 these discussions, exploring the history of colonial violence in Africa through the prism of fifteen African belongings - all looted at the height of the imperial era and brought to European museums.Structured around three arenas - the battlefield, the royal palace, and the realm of the sacred - the book displays how colonial officers violently plundered Africa. It explores the meaning of those cultural artefacts at the time of their appropriation and today in an era of restitution.With writers from Europe and Africa, including scientists, museum professionals, artists and activists, the book illuminates the collective trauma and loss of cultural, historical and spiritual knowledge that colonial theft engendered.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sela Legall Adjei, Sela K. Legall Adjei, Sela K Adjei, Yann LeGall, Sela K. Adjei
• Mitarbeit: Sela Adjei (Herausgeber), Yann LeGall (Herausgeber), Sela K. Adjei (Herausgeber), Peju Layiwola (Vorwort)
• Verlag: Pluto
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2024
• Thema: Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Allgemeines, Lexika
• EAN: 9780745349527
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4952-7
• Anzahl Seiten: 304
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 18 x 22.6 x 2.1 cm
• Themen: History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, Heritage, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / Museum Studies, Benin, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Colonialism & imperialism, Loot, museums, Plunder, Magdala, Cultural Heritage, Colonialism and imperialism, Artworks, African History, imperialism, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality, Decolonisation, looted art, Restitution Debate, African art, Indigenous rights, art museums, colonial violence, Looting, indigenous heritage, Benin Bronzes, Punitive Expedition, stolen artifacts, Universal Museum, Cultural Restitution, museum ethics, Stolen artefacts, Brutish museums, punitive expeditions, decolonial perspectives, Cultural Justice, Which objects were stolen from Africa, why is art stolen from Africa?, colonial looting, Ashanti gold, Asaba people, Dagbon Kingdom, Asante court, looted African heritage, cultural ownership, King Bema, restitution of knowledge project, stolen objects, colonization and art, restitution claims, abolish the museum, anticolonial resistance, stolen objects in British Museum, King Kofi Karikari, African colonies, magdala treasures, A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Ngonsso, museum repatriation, acquisition and appropriation, anti-museum, colonial plunder