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A Critical Analysis of the Savoy-Sarr Report (The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics) Moore, Christopher Biehl, Peter Anthropology museum studies art history African history M.A. This thesis is a critical analysis of The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics, commonly referred to as the Savoy-Sarr Report. The report addresses the call for the return of the cultural heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa from France, but incorporates the collections of other institutions. This thesis contends that while the report strives to separate from the political on the grounds of a morally superior argument, it is unable to do so given its commission by the French government, and the fact that the institutions under discussion rely predominantly on the funding of their respective local and national governments. By analyzing two areas of proposed restitution within the report, the former Kingdom of Benin and the former Empire of Mali, this thesis seeks to highlight why the blanket measures of the Savoy-Sarr report are unsustainable and why the adoption of a case by case evaluation of restitution is the best way of ensuring the survival of cultural heritage. **To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.** 2025-02-21T21:44:49Z 2025-02-21T21:44:49Z 2020 Text Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10477/86760 eng Users of works found in University at Buffalo Institutional Repository (UBIR) are responsible for identifying and contacting the copyright owner for permission to reuse. University at Buffalo Libraries do not manage rights for copyright-protected works and cannot assist with permissions. Copyright retained by author. application/pdf State University of New York at Buffalo