This working paper provides an analysis of grounds for return and restitution frameworks based upon them in different national contexts. One European policy context, namely the German, is analyzed alongside three Latin American legislative contexts: the Argentinian, Chilean, and Brazilian.
[ in Dutch ] Daantje van de Linde delves into the history of a power statue that has been called the face of the World Museum Rotterdam's Africa collection. Her conclusion: case of involuntary loss of possession.
Cameroonian prof. Albert Gouaffo made an interim assessment of the debate on the looting and restitution of Cameroon’s cultural heritage in Germany. 'This work requires preparation and prudence and not a rush, as the German side would like.'
Modernity has emphasized the need to disconnect from emotions for the sake of objectivity; the mind as the vehicle for sense-making. However, onto-epistemologies from the Global South discuss the relevance of a holistic integration of the body, mind, heart, and life-force (spirit) for a better understanding.
In Morocco, the post-colonial power has implemented cultural policies aiming for a return to the precolonial times with a conception of tradition that was produced by the colonial gaze, thus continuing the colonial epistemology and policies.
[ in Dutch ] This thesis on the Watson collection shows that even smaller non-ethnographic museums such as the Noordbrabants Museum of art, culture and history have collections from colonial areas.
This paper outlines what makes the case of Ethiopia particular: the country that was never colonised but experienced the impact of European expansionism, and then discusses the two principal periods of looting
