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Colonial Theft and Postcolonial Reparation - The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution By Dan Hicks. London: Pluto Press, 2020. Pp. 368. $27.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780745341767); $17.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780745346229); $10.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781786806840).

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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution By Dan Hicks. London: Pluto Press, 2020. Pp. 368. $27.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780745341767); $17.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780745346229); $10.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781786806840).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2022

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Enibokun Uzebu-Imarhiagbe*
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University of Benin
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Nigeriaanthropologymuseums & memorialscolonialismdecolonisationmaterial culture
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The Journal of African History , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , July 2022 , pp. 250 - 252
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References

1 Wood, P., ‘Display, restitution and world art history: the case of the “Benin Bronzes”’, Visual Culture in Britain, 13:1 (2012), 121–2CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Barkan, E., ‘Aesthetics and evolution: Benin arts in Europe’, African Arts, 30:3 (1997), 36CrossRefGoogle Scholar.