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Call for western museums to return looted artefacts

Sean was joined by Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford a...

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16.20 17 Nov 2020


Call for western museums to return looted artefacts


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16.20 17 Nov 2020


Sean was joined by Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, who put forward a call for western museums to return the objects looted in the violent days of empire.

Dan lays out his argument in his new book “The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution”

 


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