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Title
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A Human Rights Approach to Cultural Property: Repatriating the Yaqui Maaso Kova
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Description
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Claims for repatriation of cultural property are emerging across the international community, with increasing attention to the inequities of acquisitions made during colonial periods. Yet the State-centric nature of legal instruments, such as the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property of 1970, remains a stumbling block to advancing meaningful remedies for past harms, especially in the Indigenous Peoples’ context. States often pursue repatriation to advance national identity or replenish museum collections, but for Indigenous Peoples, repatriation often has to do with restoring dignity to ancestors through reburial, returning ceremonial objects to religious use, and healing the community from cultural assimilation and oppression.
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Date Issued
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2023
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Bibliographic Citation
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Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal; Vol. 41, Special Issue, “The Parthenon Marbles Case and the Universal Museum Myth: Policies and Politics“ (2023)
