RE: https://mastodon.social/@jens2go/115991321662610980

+ "raises a troubling question: Why would a museum anchor an object so securely that it can never be moved? Are they the rightful custodians of such artifacts, or merely jailers...movie reinforces what many already know: museums want to acquire objects without the burden of people and their associated cultures." re: #patrimony + more

"#Museums have been apologizing for the overlap of their #ethnology collections with the subjects of #colonialOccupation, yet many still struggle to articulate a clear mission." - Susan Tallman

The Plunderers’ Dilemma

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/18/the-plunderers-dilemma-museums-susan-tallman/
https://archive.ph/vNr6x

#InHumboldtsShadow #TheMagnificentBoat #patrimony #theftOfPatrimony #colonialism #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

Howard Anglin (@howardanglin): "Buffet has commissioned no plays, no poems, no symphonies, no operas, no ballets; funded no paintings or sculptures that will outlive him; endowed no theatres, choirs, or orchestras; built no monuments, great homes, museums, churches, monasteries, chantries, baptistries, almshouses, or civic buildings that future generations will marvel at and enjoy.*

He has added less to the common stock of civilisation than any man as wealthy before him.

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#art #patrimony

This is what I think of when I see DHS posting pastoral images.

https://youtu.be/_tUctFu46_c
#Patrimony #Fatherland #Lebensraum

"The repatriation is both an apology for the destruction caused by #FrenchColonialism and a reassertion of its power. It is a reclamation of meaningful cultural objects and a funeral for a culture that no longer exists. It is a joyful celebration and a savage insult."

On #MatiDiop's #Dahomey

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/here-there-everywhere/

#cinéma #documentaire #documentary #Bénin #colonisationFrançaise #violencesColoniales #colonialViolence #patrimoine #pillageDeLArt #patrimony #histFr #polFr @film @histodons

LARB Radio Hour | The #LAFires

guests:

⦁author David L. Ulin on #LA's precarity in the face of nature and its "literature of disaster"
⦁Adrian Scott Fine, president of the Los Angeles Conservancy, on the loss of #patrimony in the fires

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/the-la-fires/
#CaliforniaWildfires #LAwildfires #LosAngeles #cities #architecture

Switzerland returns centuries-old mummies to Bolivia in landmark repatriation ceremony.

The Bolivian minister identified them as of Pacajes de origen Aymara origin, a culture established in the region between 1100 and 1400.

#precolumbian #bolivia #switzerland #heritage #patrimony #decolonisation #aymara #Indigenous #histodon #southAmerica #culture

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/11/21/switzerland-returns-centuries-old-mummies-to-bolivia-in-landmark-repatriation-ceremony

H.R.2930, the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act of 2021 (STOP Act). The STOP Act now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.

The STOP Act builds on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a 1990 law that made it illegal to traffic Native American cultural items, funerary objects and objects of patrimony

H.R.2930
#NAGPRA #Protection #Repatriation #Act #STOP #Safeguard #Patrimony #Graves #law

https://www.indian.senate.gov/news/press-release/murkowski-applauds-senate-passage-stop-act