Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Repatriation from an Angolan Perspective: Politics, Advertising, and Business
Thursday November 2, 2017
ANSO 134
11:30 – 1:30 pm
Event Poster: PDF
Nuno Porto
Abstract:
Restitution of African art and artefacts to contemporary African countries, has been a permanent unhidden agenda for post independences African leaders. While the Italian restitution of the Axoum obelisk to Ethiopia in 2005, and the ongoing negotiation over the restitution of Benin bronzes from England, have centered in an institutional arena for such processes, Sindika Dokolo, from Angola, is decided to mine the market and treat African Art and artefacts, as goods that can be repatriated by being acquired. In this presentation, Dr. Porto explore immediate consequences of the approach to repatriation as business.
About the speaker:
Dr. Nuno Porto, Curator – Africa and Latin America – Museum of Anthropology. Associate, Department of Art History and Visual Art & Theory. University of British Columbia
