Tiffany Jenkins Keeping Their Marbles

How some of the greatest treasures of world archaeology ended up in the musems of the west.

Tiffany jenkins keeping their marbles.

In keeping their marbles tiffany jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. Keeping their marbles is a full throated argument against the repatriation of arguably stolen art and artifacts. In keeping their marbles tiffany jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. Tiffany jenkins is a writer author and broadcaster.

Tiffany jenkins the benin bronzes were plundered by britain but those who demand their return are ignoring some uncomfortable truths sun 25 nov 2018 04 00 est the british museum has agreed to loan. 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. How the treasures of the past ended up in museums and why they should stay there and contesting human remains. 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.

To say that it is controversial is a severe understatement stefan beck weekly standard jenkins does an excellent job of portraying the extreme reactions elicited by repatriation conversations. Her last book keeping their marbles. How treasures of the past ended up in museums and why they should stay there oup was published in 2016 to critical acclaim. 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 first collected.

To the british sociologist and provocateur tiffany jenkins the controversy over the elgin marbles forms a powerful image the telling synecdoche the key example for all the troubles that beset. Tiffany jenkins is a writer and author of keeping their marbles. In keeping their marbles tiffany jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. Described in the sunday times review as an outstanding achievement clear headed wide ranging and incisive.