To do so before they have returned the Maqdala treasures and the Benin Bronzes and the Easter Island statues and the Maori heads, before a coherent set of precepts for decolonization has been articulated, would affirm the wrong principle.
Elizabeth Marlowe
Elizabeth Marlowe is an associate professor of Ancient & Medieval Art and museum studies at Colgate University. She is the author of Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art (Bloomsbury, 2013) and many scholarly articles.
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