Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, scholarly, and economic dimensions of this hotly debated issue. While historians and archaeologists debate continuing non-Native interests and obligations, Native American scholars speak to the key cultural issues embedded in their ancestral pasts. A variety of sometimes explosive case studies are considered, ranging from Kennewick Man to the repatriation of Zuni Ahayu: da. Also featured is a detailed discussion of the background, meaning, and applicability of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, as well as the text of the act itself. |
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Contents
1 The Representations of Indian Bodies in NineteenthCentury American Anthropology | 19 |
Reflections on the Cultural Background of Collecting | 37 |
The Current Debate | 57 |
The Looting of Americas Past | 59 |
4 Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains | 74 |
5 American Indians Anthropologists Pothunters and Repatriation Ethical Religious and Political Differences | 95 |
A Pawnees Perspective | 106 |
Legal and Ethical Issues | 121 |
11 A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy | 200 |
Semiotic Sovereignty and the Debate over Kennewick Man | 211 |
Studies in Resolution | 237 |
13 Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems | 239 |
The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia 19221980 | 266 |
A New Beginning Not the End for Osteological Analysis A Hopi Perspective | 282 |
16 A New and Different Archaeology? With a Postscript on the Impact of the Kennewick Dispute | 294 |
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | 307 |
7 The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Background and Legislative History | 123 |
8 Secularism Civil Religion and the Religious Freedom of American Indians | 169 |
9 Ethics and the Reburial Controversy | 180 |
10 Some Scholars Views on Reburial | 190 |
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| Title | Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? [ebrary electronic books] |
| Editor | Devon Abbott Mihesuah |
| Publisher | U of Nebraska Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0803206313, 9780803206311 |
| Length | 335 pages |
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