Berbelang is part of the art-napping Mu’tafikah, whose goal is to rescue non-western art from museums. The Mu’tafika believe that this art is stolen, because it was taken without permission from original cultures across Africa and Asia. Even worse, the art is kept in a sort of prison (museums). Not everyone has access to museums because of the entrance fee and their general seclusion, so the art is hidden from many people. Oftentimes the original purpose of the art was practical, maybe used in a ritual or as a religious symbol, and keeping it hidden in a museum does a disservice to the artifact. So basically, western nations have kidnapped artifacts, kept them in a place that is difficult to access, and are not using them in the way they were meant to be used. At first I didn’t understand what this had to do with Jes Grew. After all, those artifacts don’t mean much to people in America, they only mean something to the places from which they came. But as we learn later on, the culture i...