The power to select, name and decide the meaning of these items makes Europeans the authors of African history.
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The indigenous Rapa Nui say the statue is one of their most spiritually important.
Colonial powers plundered the heritage of countries all over the world – restitution is long overdue.
What's needed is a comprehensive international strategy to combat the illicit trade in antiquities.
For Ethiopia, there is no connection between the Maqdala war in 1868 and the stolen treasures at Maqdala
An ivory ban in the US had a series of unintended consequences.
The question of repatriating objects is clearly more complex than returning human remains. It needs more debate, and more creative interventions to move beyond the current impasse.
For centuries, fishing fleets from Sulawesi regularly visited Australia in search of trepang. Their visits were recorded orally and have been depicted in detailed artworks.
It hovers uneasily between being a fine-art exhibition showing the diversity and sheer visual and sociocultural potency of contemporary Australian visual art practice, and an older-style ethnographic survey.
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Lecturer of Human Rights, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of International Politics, University of Sheffield
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Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria and Phd Candidate, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Indigenous Studies at Monash University, and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Monash University
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Professor, Chief Cultural Officer, Cultural Precinct, University of Western Australia
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Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow, Law, University of Strathclyde
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory, University of Kent
