In order to reappraise discourses on the restitution vs. retention of Africa’s cultural heritage, Eyssette examines the Musée du Quai Branly (France), the AfricaMuseum (Belgium), the British Museum (UK), and the Humboldt Forum (Germany) as one representative spectrum for analysis showing the mutual imbrications of their changing strategies and practices. After detecting biases in retentionist arguments on security, accessibility, law, and ethics, Eyssette stresses symmetrical shortcomings in restitutionist discourses on provenance research and the instrumentalization of heritage for economic gains or post-colonial rebranding. The conclusion determines whether these four institutions are retentionists, rhetorical restitutionists, or truly reformed restitutionists.

为了重新评估关于恢复原状与保留非洲文化遗产的论述，Eyssette 将 Musée du Quai Branly（法国）、非洲博物馆（比利时）、大英博物馆（英国）和洪堡论坛（德国）作为一个代表进行了考察用于分析的频谱显示了他们不断变化的策略和实践的相互关联。在发现关于安全、可及性、法律和道德的保留主义论点存在偏见之后，Eyssette 强调了关于起源研究和遗产工具化以获取经济收益或后殖民地品牌重塑的恢复主义话语中的对称缺陷。结论决定了这四个机构是保留主义者、修辞恢复主义者还是真正改革的恢复主义者。