Tag: The British Museums
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Calling for Rigour and Honesty
The Critic published (18 March) Nigel Biggar’s review of The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Cultural Violence and Cultural Restitution (Pluto Press), a book by archaeologist Dan Hicks (Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, University of Oxford). Biggar’s review, ‘Whites and wrongs’, offers a counter-examination of the claims and conclusions set out by Hicks and closes with a clarion call for scholarly rigour…