Contested Holdings : : Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return / / ed. by Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Otoiu, Eva-Maria Troelenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Besterman, Tristram,; Bodenstein, Felicity,; Etienne, Noémie,; Federici, Fabrizio,; Hemming, Steve,; Iskin, Ruth E.,; Manikowska, Ewa,; Mumbembele Sanger, Placide,; Otoiu, Damiana,; Oţoiu, Damiana,; Saß, Ulrike,; Sommer, Christopher,; Sumner, Loretta,; Sumner, Major,; Thompson, Erin,; Troelenberg, Eva-Maria,
• HerausgeberIn: Fforde, Cressida,; Golomoz, Cristina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Museums and Collections ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)

Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global geography...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I. From Objects Back to People: Ways of Life and Loss
• Chapter 1. The Value of Art – a Human Life? Works of Art in the Crosshairs of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialism
• Chapter 2. Return as Reconstruction: The Gwoździec Synagogue Replica in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
• Chapter 3. The Other Nefertiti: Symbolic Restitutions
• Part II. The Subject of Return: Between Artefacts and Bodies
• Chapter 4. Blurring Objects: Life Casts, Human Remains and Art History
• Chapter 5. Of Phrenology, Reconciliation and Veneration: Exhibiting the Repatriated Life Cast of Māori Chief Takatahara at the Akaroa Museum
• Chapter 6. Ancestors or Artefacts: Contention in the Definition, Retention and Return of Ngarrindjeri Old People
• Part III. ‘The Making of Law’: Politics and Museum Ethics
• Chapter 7. A Long-Term Perspective on the Issue of the Return of Congolese Cultural Objects: Entangled Relations between Kinshasa and Tervuren (1930–80)
• Chapter 8. ‘How Would You Like to See Your Great-Grandfather in a Museum?’ The Issue of ‘Human Dignity’ in Repatriation Processes (Cases Involving French Museums)
• Chapter 9. (De)Museifying Collections of Physical Anthropology: The Display and/or the Restitution of Human Remains of Indigenous Peoples from Southern Africa
• Part IV. Partial and Paused Returns
• Chapter 10. Baroque Returns: The Donations and Reuses of Francesco Gualdi
• Chapter 11. Getting the Benin Bronzes Back to Nigeria: The Art Market and the Formation of National Collections and Concepts of Heritage in Benin City and Lagos
• Chapter 12. What Future for Looted Syrian Antiquities? The Clash between the Law and Practice for the Repatriation of Cultural Property to Countries in Crisis
• Conclusion. Unfinished Projects of ‘Decentring’ Western Museum Practices
• Index