Overview

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large numbers of indigenous human remains were collected for the purpose of studying racial differences. More recently, human remains in university and museum collections also include those uncovered through archaeological excavation and retained for the scientific study of past populations. Increasingly, indigenous peoples world-wide are asserting their right to determine the future of the human remains of their ancestors and are requesting their return. This repatriation campaign has brought under scrutiny the ethics of scientific practice, raising cultural and moral issues that have not easily been resolved between groups of people with varying histories and beliefs. The Dead and their Possessions presents recent international research on repatriation by indigenous and non-indigenous people from museum, archaeological, anthropological, historical, educational and community backgrounds. In November 2003 the UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport Working Group on Human Remains published its report. Its brief had included examination of the legal status of human remains, institutional powers to de-accession, the desirability of a statement of principles and supporting guidance relating to the care and safe-keeping of human remains, and the procedures for considering requests for their return. A new preface to this paperback edition examines the findings and significance of the report and the continuing controversy about this crucial aspect of global museum policy and practice.

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Author:   Cressida Fforde ,  Jane Hubert ,  Paul Turnbull ,  Paul Turnbull
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9780415344494

ISBN 10:   0415344492
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   24 June 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Series editors’ foreword, Preface to the paperback edition, Preface, Introduction: the reburial issue in the twenty-first century, 1. Repatriation as healing the wounds of the trauma of history: cases of Native Americans in the United States of America, 2. Collection, repatriation and identity, 3. Saami skulls, anthropological race research and the repatriation question in Norway, 4. Skeletal remains of the Norwegian Saami, 5. Indigenous Australian people, their defence of the dead and native title, 6. Bone reburial in Israel: legal restrictions and methodological implications, 7. A decade after the Vermillion Accord: what has changed and what has not?, 8. Academic freedom, stewardship and cultural heritage: weighing the interests of stakeholders in crafting repatriation approaches, 9. Implementing a ‘true compromise’: the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act after ten years, 10. Repatriation in the USA: a decade of federal agency activities under NAGPRA, 11. Artefactual awareness: Spiro Mounds, grave goods and politics, 12. Implementation of NAGPRA: the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 13. Ka Huaka‘i O Na- ‘O–iwi: the Journey Home, 14. Implementing repatriation in the United States: issues raised and lessons learned, 15. The plundered past: Britain’s challenge for the future, 16. One hundred and sixty years of exile: Vaimaca Pirú and the campaign to repatriate his remains to Uruguay, 17. Tambo, 18. Yagan, 19. The connection between archaeological treasures and the Khoisan people, 20. Missing persons and stolen bodies: the repatriation of ‘El Negro’ to Botswana, 21. The reburial of human remains at Thulamela, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 22. ‘Ndi nnyi ane a do dzhia marambo?’ – ‘who will take the bones?’: excavations at Matoks, Northern Province, South Africa, 23. The reburial issue in Argentina: a growing conflict, 24. Partnership in museums: a tribal Maori response to repatriation, 25. Indigenous governance in museums: a case study, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, 26. Developments in the repatriation of human remains and other cultural items in Queensland, Australia, 27. Practicalities in the return of remains: the importance of provenance and the question of unprovenanced remains, 28. Heritage that hurts: the case of the grave of Cecil John Rhodes in the Matopos National Park, Zimbabwe, Index

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"""Jane Hubert and Cressida Fforde introduce 27 engrossing papers on the problems of ethics and ownership arising over how First World biological anthropologists and museums treat human remains from 'developing' countries and Fourth World peoples."" - Antiquity 'Jane Hubert and Cressida Fforde introduce 27 engrossing papers on the problems of ethics and ownership arising over how First World biological anthropologists and museums treat human remains from 'developing' countries and Fourth World peoples'- Antiquity"

Jane Hubert and Cressida Fforde introduce 27 engrossing papers on the problems of ethics and ownership arising over how First World biological anthropologists and museums treat human remains from 'developing' countries and Fourth World peoples. <br>-Antiquity <br>

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Cressida Fforde is an independent researcher and holds an honorary post at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. Jane Hubert is Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Psychiatry of Disability at St George's Hospital Medical School. Paul Turnball is Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University

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