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Great -- thanks to lousy reporting on the "unlawfully removed cultural objects" clause in the EU trade negotiations draft, we get yet *another* opportunity for takes like this.
telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-se…
h/t @rogueclassicist
@rogueclassicist When you, a Greek, want the Parthenon sculptures in Greece, it's because of a narrow thing like national identity.

When I, a Brit, want them to stay in Britain, it's because of the lofty idea that they "belong to us all"
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@rogueclassicist We've seen this argument about cultural heritage for 200 years, and throughout it all, the people saying "they belong to us all" just happen to keep arguing for these objects to be kept in their own national museums. Odd.
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Looks like Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press have just published a large set of cuneiform tablets almost certainly looted and smuggled out of wartime Iraq.
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For anyone unfamiliar with the problems with Irisagrig tablets and interested in learning more, you might start with this thread:
A familiar justification from the book description: otherwise heritage might have been lost!
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Back to one of my favorite topics: "Mark Twain, Not-So-Innocent Abroad", to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Innocents Abroad

I wrote about why it mattered then, how (not) to read it today, & what it might tell us about Twain himself.
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(And thanks to @DimitriNakassis for the Arthur Evans reference.)
A couple of years ago, I wrote about how The Innocents Abroad presents Palestine, to mark the 150th anniversary of Twain's actual trip
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Something tells me this might not be the most helpful way to describe European and American interactions with "the Orient" in the 19th century.
(From the British Museum's description of its exhibition "Inspired by the East", opening October 10)
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I mean, on one level Orientalism is just 1 instance of different cultures meeting and understanding each other in biased ways -- but to remove it from the context of power and imperialism completely misses why it was (and still is) so damaging.
Perhaps not surprising for the BM?
This is the only description of Orientalism on the page, and it's oddly neutral to positive. Image
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