Ahmad Mohammad writes: As a wave of NAGPRA repatriation filings hit the Federal Register, this article asks what repatriation cannot reach, and why the limit is not accidental.
Ahmed Mohammad examines Germany's new Coordination Council for Returns of Cultural Property and Human Remains from Colonial Contexts — weighing what it genuinely achieves against the structural challenges that remain. The council's limitation is that it remains unclarified whether it will issue binding rulings or operate in an advisory capacity. The question of human remains is where this limitation is sharpest.
