Indeed she does not shy away from the dubious methods that many of today s greatest museums originally procured their fabulous collections as the following extract shows.
Tiffany jenkins keeping their marbles.
No says tiffany jenkins a culture writer and she marshals a powerful case.
Robbie millen the times this book is both a lucid account of how the great world museums came by their treasures and a robust argument as to why human remains such as bones aside they should keep them.
Keeping their marbles by tiffany jenkins 25 oup the fabulous collections housed in the world s most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age.
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Tiffany jenkins the benin bronzes were plundered by britain but those who demand their return are ignoring some uncomfortable truths the british museum has agreed to loan the works back to a new.
In keeping their marbles tiffany jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects.
From shrunken heads to victim complexes to military adventurism and on.
Although jenkins describes herself as a repatriation skeptic keeping their marbles nevertheless gives a balanced history of how museums acquired their artifacts.
While tiffany jenkins believes repatriation of the so called elgin marbles from great briton to greece is inadvisable the book charges off in a plethora of tangents.
She lays out several arguments for this including the fact that some of these items would have been destroyed if they weren t in the uk either now or when they were.
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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.
Order keeping their marbles tiffany jenkins applies her considerable experience of cultural policy to construct an excellent survey her level headed and balanced book is a valuable contribution to the international debate and will enrich audiences and scholars for a long time to come mark fisher spectator.