Since the publication of the “restitution report” by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy in November 2018, the debate around the restitution of African artifacts inherited from German colonialism in German museums has become increasingly intense. While the restitution debate in Germany is generally focused on “material cultural heritage” and human remains, this reflection attempts to contextualize the “immaterial heritage” (museum collections inventory data, photographs, movies, sound recordings, and digital archive documents) from German colonialism and plead for its consideration in this debate. It claims that the first step of restitution consists of German ethnological museums being transparent about their possessions of artifacts from colonial contexts, which means providing all available information about museum collections from colonial contexts and making them easily accessible to the people from the former German colonies.

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较少考虑的部分：在归还辩论中将德国殖民背景中的非物质遗产背景化

自 2018 年 11 月费尔温·萨尔（Felwine Sarr）和贝内迪克特·萨沃伊（Bénédicte Savoy）发表“归还报告”以来，德国博物馆中关于归还从德国殖民主义遗留下来的非洲文物的争论愈演愈烈。虽然德国的归还辩论一般集中在“物质文化遗产”和人类遗骸上，但这种思考试图将德国殖民主义的“非物质遗产”（博物馆藏品库存数据、照片、电影、录音和数字档案文件）置于语境中并恳请在本次辩论中考虑。它声称归还的第一步包括德国民族学博物馆对其拥有的殖民时期文物保持透明，