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Not an artifact, but an ancestor: Why a German university is returning a Māori taonga

Restitution debates—the questions of whether a cultural object should be returned from a museum or other collection to a person or community—often begin with a deceptively simple question: Who owns an object?

Not an artifact, but an ancestor: Why a German university is returning a Māori taonga
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Restitution debates—the questions of whether a cultural object should be returned from a museum or other collection to a person or community—often begin with a deceptively simple question: Who owns an object?

Originally published at Phys.org

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