It needs to be understood that Jenkins is not setting out to write an academic tome, nor to shed new light on history or explain the workings of international cultural heritage law. Rather, this is a highly emotive book written by a journalist with a very particular audience in mind. The pun in the title, Keeping their Marbles, reveals who she thinks ‘her people’ are, and it soon becomes apparent who she believes the ‘problem people’ to be. The book is designed to put pressure on those misguided people working in museums that are sympathetic to repatriation. The book is a defence of a very old-fashioned and conservative view—the idea of a universal ‘rationality’ where all humanity is shared, where ‘treasures’ ended up in Europe due to a ‘global trade’ fuelled by mutual cultural curiosity and, for the most part, property acquisitions were carried out in accordance with civilised property laws. The claim is that cultural identity and, even more disturbingly, humanity is acquired through warehousing objects for the benefit of ‘us’: the researchers and members of the public who are interested in museum collections. Indigenous peoples are a marginal concern; however, like the Greeks, they are treated as having lost their marbles in a very particular sense. The pun appears to be non-ironic. With respect to Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia, Jenkins argues: If we are to understand those cultures and how they lived, then their material culture—their objects of everyday use, ritual objects, weapons and items of adornment—is important research material . . . We can study these objects in conjunction with the traveller’s journals, which describe the behaviour, appearance and customs of the native people together with their material culture.1

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保留他们的大理石：过去的宝藏如何最终进入博物馆......以及为什么他们应该留在那里。蒂芙尼詹金斯。牛津：牛津大学出版社，2016 年。369 页。

需要理解的是，詹金斯并不是要写一本学术巨著，也不是要阐明历史或解释国际文化遗产法的运作。相反，这是一本非常情绪化的书，由一名记者撰写，并考虑到了非常特殊的受众。标题中的双关语，Keeping their Marbles，揭示了她认为“她的人”是谁，很快就会明白她认为“问题人”是谁。这本书旨在向那些在博物馆工作、同情遣返的被误导的人施加压力。这本书是对一种非常老式和保守的观点的辩护——一种普遍的“理性”的想法，即全人类共享，由于相互文化好奇心和“全球贸易”的推动，“财富”最终流向了欧洲。 ，在大多数情况下，财产收购是按照文明财产法进行的。声称文化身份，更令人不安的是，人类是通过仓储物品获得的，目的是为了“我们”：对博物馆藏品感兴趣的研究人员和公众。土著人民是一个边缘问题；然而，像希腊人一样，他们被视为在一个非常特殊的意义上失去了他们的弹珠。双关语似乎没有讽刺意味。关于夏威夷、太平洋岛屿、新西兰和澳大利亚的土著人民，詹金斯认为：如果我们要了解这些文化和他们的生活方式，那么他们的物质文化——他们的日常使用的物品、仪式物品、武器和物品装饰——是重要的研究材料。. .