Patrimonialities: Heritage vs. Property, edited by Valdimar Tr. Hafstein and Martin Skrydstrup. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 112pp. $20.00. ISBN: 9781108928380

This fine book begins with a speech from French Presi-dent Emmanuel Macron,who appeals for the returning of Africa cultural heritage from European museums to their places of origin,posing the long-standing question of who owns heritage.This is the tip of the iceberg of a broader discussion about the role of museums in critical heritage studies,which suggests to reflect on their new definition,bringing together a number of issues such as culture identity,cultural amnesia,cultural alienation and culture discourses for political goals.Against this back-drop,the five chapters in this book address the distinc-tion between cultural heritage and cultural property,illustrating different rationalities of government mobilis-ing a number of global cases.The authors'argument is based on'contrasts between cultural property and cul-tural heritage and between distinct technologies ofgovern-mentality'(p.9).Based on discourse analysis and a com-parative approach,the book offers an invaluable survey of cases,and a theoretical contribution to reframing the conceptual differences in which national and indigenous claims and discourses are shaped and legitimated.Cul-