How an anthropologist and a lawyer assess research on colonial provenance
Mangaaka were beings which watched over the observance of treaties in the Loango region of western Africa. Their original legal function was concealed by European collections exhibiting them solely as works of art. Handing back cultural artefacts which have a colonial provenance has long been an object of public debate. There have occasionally been heated disputes over the fact that objects such as the Luf boat from New Guinea and the Benin Bronzes are held in European collections. At the Universities of Münster and Vienna a project entitled "Forensics of Provenance: Colonial Translocations through the Lenses of Legal Pluralism" is looking into new approaches to handling cultural treasures. In this interview with Lennart Pieper , the historical anthropologist Dr. João Figueiredo , a research associate at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Legal Unity and Pluralism", and legal historian Dr. Sebastian M.
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