 The general tenor of this approach is to claim that certain objects qualify as cultural property, and then to argue based on a particular feature of cultural property that the relevant object should be returned to a designated group. Given the basic notion that cultural property is just the property of a cultural group (Thompson 2003: 252; Appiah 2006: 118), the concept is not necessarily incompatible with the alienation of particular items under appropriately authorized conditions of sale or transfer. However, one might appeal to cultural property as the basis for a repatriation claim if one thinks that the very concept of cultural property in fact precludes such transfers  (3.1.1),  or, rather, if the conditions under which such a transfer occurred are unclear  (3.1.2).  For further discussion of the concept of cultural property, see  section 2.