See, people complain about museums appropriating stuff from various cultures, but stuff like this happens a lot. See also: Babylonian paving destroyed by US tanks, most of Hadrian’s Wall being repurposed as housing and enclosures…
The difference is that usually, the controversy over museums taking stuff from other cultures comes from a period of extraordinary looting in the process of 19th century AD imperialism, which we’ve pretty much all agreed was a dick move and at a time when Euros no longer normalized treating each other like that. So it’s more a question of double standards and restitution.
See also: Babylonian paving destroyed by US tanks,
… not sure I’d remark on that one positively, or even neutrally.
See, people complain about museums appropriating stuff from various cultures, but stuff like this happens a lot. See also: Babylonian paving destroyed by US tanks, most of Hadrian’s Wall being repurposed as housing and enclosures…
The difference is that usually, the controversy over museums taking stuff from other cultures comes from a period of extraordinary looting in the process of 19th century AD imperialism, which we’ve pretty much all agreed was a dick move and at a time when Euros no longer normalized treating each other like that. So it’s more a question of double standards and restitution.
… not sure I’d remark on that one positively, or even neutrally.