Dan Hicks
Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. More info: https://www.danhicks.uk/
Phone: +44 (0)1865 613011
Address: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford. OX1 3PP. UK
Phone: +44 (0)1865 613011
Address: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford. OX1 3PP. UK
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Books by Dan Hicks
Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections.
The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Papers by Dan Hicks
A. Natif and G.M. Lucas (eds) Shadow Archaeologies: in the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking. London: Routledge, pp. 58-72
The discussion divides into three parts. First, we sketch the post-war development of urban post-medieval archaeology in London, and the range of archaeological collections and excavation sites that relate to the Georgian and Victorian city. Second, we consider some of the ways in which the analysis of these sources might be used in interdisciplinary urban historiography, especially
in the light of methodological approaches developed in North American and Australian urban archaeology. Third, we present a case study that explores how nineteenth-century
household archaeologies in London might be developed, examining some of the complexities and challenges of integrating archaeological methods into the study of households and
localities in the nineteenth-century metropolis. In conclusion we consider the prospects for the development of interdisciplinary approaches to the material remains of London’s modern past."