Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Acronyms; Archives consulted for this research; Introduction -- The international debate on returns and restitutions; Chapter 1 -- Return claims from Peru, Mexico, and Colombia; Chapter 2 -- Return claims, instruments of the construction of national discourses; Chapter 3 -- The expansion of the cultural state; Chapter 4 -- Agency and politics in return claims: who claims and whose claim?; Chapter 5 -- The role of international actors in return claims and their resolution; Conclusion; References; Index.