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- W2397788687 abstract "Borrowing from recent economic commodity chains literature, this paper describes what I call the morality chain of cultural objects as they move from Africa to the United States (US) as part of the global traffic in art/artifacts. It does so by focusing upon the removal usually by theft -- and global marketing of memorial statues (vigango) erected by the Mijikenda peoples of East Africa, more than 400 of which are now located in US museums. / Using two unusually well-documented statues whose theft from Kenya I recorded in 1985, to their discovery in two US museums 15 years later, I examine the moral constructs surrounding each of the parties involved in transactions with these statues. I conclude that the morality of each transaction is dubious at best, but the outcome -- deposition in and display by public museums -- is regarded by the US public as an unquestioned and untainted moral good. Like Parker Shiptons descriptions of the processes by which Luo interpret money as bitter or clean, so does a process that begins with the immoral act of stealing become laundered by the multiple transactions through which these statues are propelled around the world. Stripped by theft of their suprahuman moral qualities and reduced by dealers to mere commodities, once they come to rest in public museums, the sacred aura of these rare forms of East African art is resurrected and their donors celebrated as moral, generous and charitable citizens. /" @default.
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- W2397788687 title "Memorial Statues, Art Markets and Museums: The Morality Chain of the Global Trade in African Cultural Property" @default.
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