Contested Holdings : Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return

The value of art - a human life? : works of art in the crosshairs of the persecution of Jews under national socialism / Ulrike Sass -- Return as reconstruction : the Gwoździec Synagogue replica in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews / Ewa Manikowska -- The other Nefertiti : symbolic restitutions / Ruth E. Iskin -- Blurring objects : life-casts, human remains and art history / Noémie Etienne -- Of phrenology, reconciliation and veneration : exhibiting the repatriated life cast of Māori Chief Takatahara at the Akaroa Museum / Christopher Sommer -- Ancestors or artefacts : contention in the definition, retention and return of Ngarrindjeri old people / Cressida Fforde, Major Sumner, Loretta Sumner, Tristram Besterman and Steve Hemming -- A long term perspective on the issue of the return of Congolese cultural objects : entangled relations between Kinshasa and Tervuren (1930-1980) / Placide Mumbembele Sanger -- 'How would you like to see your great-grandfather in a museum?' : the issue of 'human dignity' in repatriation processes (cases involving French museums) / Cristina Golomoz -- (De)museifying racial taxonomies : the display and/or the restitution of human remains of indigenous peoples from Southern Africa / Damiana Oţoiu -- Baroque returns : the donations and reuses of Francesco Gualdi / Fabrizio Federici -- 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 / Felicity Bodenstein -- What future for looted Syrian antiquities? : The clash between the law and practice for the repatriation of cultural property to countries in crisis / Erin Thompson -- Conclusion. Unfinished projects of 'decentering' Western museum practices / Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Oţoiu and Eva-Maria Troelenberg.