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1 online resource (vi, 207 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Museums and collections ; volume 2
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Museums and collections ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artefacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970's their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and culturally significant objects have been returned to the care of indigenous communities, although the fate of bones and burial artefacts in numerous collections remains unresolved and, in some instances, the subject of controversy. |
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In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains. |
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Paul Turnbull is a Professor of history in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland. He has written extensively on nineteenth-century racial thought, and the theft and repatriation of Indigenous bodily remains. His recent publications include (with Cressida Fforde and Jane Hubert) the co-edited volume The Dead and their Possessions (Routledge). |
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Michael Pickering is the Head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program at the National Museum of Australia and has directed the Museum's repatriation program for the past nine years. His research interests and publications include studies on material culture, cannibalism, hunter-gatherer archaeology and anthropology, heritage management, and repatriation. --Book Jacket. |
| Contents |
Meanings and Values of Repatriation / Henry Atkinson -- Repatriating Our Ancestors: Who Will Speak for the Dead? / Franchesca Cubillo -- Museums, Ethics and Human Remains in England: Recent Developments and Implications for the Future / Liz Bell -- Legal Impediments to the Repatriation of Cultural Objects to Indigenous Peoples / Kathryn Whitby-Last -- Parks Canada's Policies that Guide the Repatriation of Human Remains and Objects / Virginia Myles -- What Might an Anthropology of Cultural Property Look Like? / Martin Skrydstrup -- Repatriation and the Concept of Inalienable Possession / Elizabeth Burns Coleman -- Consigned to Oblivion: People and Things Forgotten in the Creation of Australia / John Morton -- Vermillion Accord and the Significance of the History of the Scientific Procurement and Use of Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains / Paul Turnbull -- Eric Mjöberg and the Rhetorics of Human Remains / Claes Hallgren -- Scientific Knowledge and Rights in Skeletal Remains- Dilemmas in the Curation of 'Other' People's Bones / Howard Morphy -- Despatches From The Front Line? Museum Experiences in Applied Repatriation / Michael Pickering -- 'You Keep It- We are Christians Here': Repatriation of the Secret Sacred Where Indigenous World-views Have Changed / Kim Akerman-- First 'Stolen Generations': Repatriation and Reburial in Ngarrindjeri Ruwe (country) / Steve Hemming and Chris Wilson. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human remains (Archaeology) |
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Grave goods -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Grave goods. |
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Cultural property -- Repatriation.
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Cultural property -- Repatriation. |
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Cultural property -- Protection.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. |
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Cultural property -- Protection. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
| Added Author |
Turnbull, Paul, editor.
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Pickering, Michael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Long way home. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 9781845459581 (DLC) 2010048783 (OCoLC)692084757 |
| ISBN |
9781845459598 (electronic book) |
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1845459598 (electronic book) |
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9781845459581 |
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184545958X |
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