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DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Strecker.

While the restitution debate has developed substantially since the Second World War – some even herald the age of ‘post-restitution’ – this is not necessarily the case for the Caribbean. Although archaeological and ethnographic objects of Caribbean origin have long been expropriated, the restitution debate has not played as essential a role in post-colonial discourse in the islands as in other former colonies. This is due to a number of reasons: first, most of the cultural objects outside the...