Alia Schultz Language Arts 11 Schenkelberg Friday November Second Positive Cross-Cultural Encounters When you decide to encounter another culture‚ you could be surprised to find out that they are not that much different than you are. You may even develop close bonds. The books “My Sojourn in the Lands of my Ancestors” and “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” show both positive and negative examples of cross-cultural encounters. To get to know another’s culture you
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Why is the ownership of Benin Art so controversial? The ownership of Benin Art could have been so controversial for a number of reasons. Most notably I would say‚ is due to the Anthropologists seeing it as a cultural insight into the history of Benin however when people were introduced to start looking at the artefacts from also a more artistic approach‚ this‚ for the anthropologists was taking the cultural effect away from it. Some people may have felt hostile to how these artefacts were obtained
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location of Benin art remains a controversy over whether it should be returned to its place of origin. It is vital to observe the “encounter” between (Woods‚ 2008‚ ‘THE ART OF BENIN’‚ p.7) Europe and the kingdom of Benin‚ when the Benin artefacts were initially plundered and confiscated in the “‘punitive expedition’” (Mackie‚ 2008‚ ‘1897: the ‘punitive expedition’‚ p.23). The British opinion of the Benin people as a “savage and brutal” (Loftus‚ 2008‚ The British Museum and the Benin ‘antiquities’
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MUSEUMS AND THEIR VOICES A CONTEMPORARY STUDY OF THE BENIN BRONZES WRITTEN BY Charlotta Dohlvik SUPERVISORS Staffan Lundén and Peter Davis Master’s Dissertation‚ May 2006 International Museum Studies‚ Museion‚ Göteborg University 1 ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................................................... 4 1. BACKGROUND ...........................................................................
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Altar to the Hand (Ikegobo) of Ezomo Ehenua 18th–19th century Nigeria; court of Benin Brass Here we have an interesting piece from modern day Nigeria. Press play for a formal description‚ the historical background‚ and an explanation of the meaning of various aspects of this object. Formal Description: This sculpture is truly a remarkable work in many senses. As a whole‚ it is sculpted in the round. The figures on top of the piece are also sculpted in the round. The figures surrounding
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Read carefully the following piece of text. What does it tell us about cross cultural encounters? In analysing this text and what it tells us about cross cultural encounters‚ we must ask and answer several questions. What is the interpretation of the text? What do we understand from the text? How was the text wrote? Who was it wrote by? And‚ is it representative of both sides? In interpreting the text we see that it is a piece taken from the “Trial of Chief Ologobosheri” and
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Looking Closely at Plate 3.1.9‚ what do these sources tell us about fifteenth – and sixteenth- century cross-cultural encounters? This assignment will discuss the nature of a cross-cultural encounter in the 15th and 16th centuries between the Portuguese traders and the people of Benin‚ leading to Portuguese figures depicted in Benin art and furthermore our understanding of cross-cultural encounters in general The plaque under consideration (plate 3.9.1) is of three forward facing warriors‚ dressed
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Read carefully Reading 2.6‚ ‘Works of Art from Benin City’‚ in Book 3 Chapter 2 and look closely at Plate 3.2.27‚ Plate showing four sixteenth century brass plaques from Benin’‚ in the illustration book. With close attention to both‚ discuss reasons why the ownership and location of the art of Benin have been controversial and continue to be so. The Places which home the artwork of Benin have and continue to cause controversy. They did not always as they did in the late nineteenth century languish
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Part 1 - Option B In no more than 500 words‚ after reading the following text‚ how can it tell us about cross-cultural encounters? --- This piece of text can offer a great deal of information on cross-cultural encounters between the Western world and the Benin people. It is an entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica from the entry on ’Negro’‚ published in 1910-1911. The author was T.A. Joyce‚ an Assistant in the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum‚ at the time of publication.
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1904). Plate 3.2.25: The display of Benin bronzes at the Horniman Museum is viewed now as works of art instead of pieces of anthropology as they were in 1903 a ‘war booty’. Bronze commemorative heads representing ancient sovereigns‚ ceremonial costumes‚ insignias and royal personal objects which marked the Oba’s position‚ naturally figure at the heart of the exhibition in Paris. The national museum in Britain‚ displays with the full agreement of the Benin people. Plate 3.2.26: Horniman gave it
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