To bridge the material and the sacred world in adjudication and policy formulation, a common definition of what the ‘sacred’ denotes in the context of colonial legacies is adopted as a viable methodology.
‘Sacred’ loot in private and public collections is defined based on clues imparted by disputes around collections such as the Parthenon Sculptures and the Zhanggong Zushi Statue cases. They offer practical approaches for deconstructing hurdles and assumptions concerning historical claims in the secondary legal norms and tenets of PrIL.
