Contested Holdings

Zusatztext

<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, the authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Damiana Otoiu</strong> is an assistant professor of political anthropology at the University of Bucharest. She coordinated several research projects, including<em>Museums and Controversial Collections: Politics and Policies of Heritage-Making in Post-colonial and Post-socialist Contexts</em> (2015-2017) and<em>Decolonial Practices in Museum Collections (Europe and sub-Saharan Africa): Local Histories and Global Circulations</em> (2021-2022).</p>

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