Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?Devon Abbott Mihesuah U of Nebraska Press, 2000 M10 1 - 335 pages 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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... artifacts . Antiquities continue to disappear throughout Central America and Canada and from temples in Nepal . The disturbance of Indian remains occurs in virtually every part of the United States.3 Desecration of Indian remains and ...
... artifacts . Antiquities continue to disappear throughout Central America and Canada and from temples in Nepal . The disturbance of Indian remains occurs in virtually every part of the United States.3 Desecration of Indian remains and ...
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... artifacts were marketable and dealers were willing to pay exorbitant prices for Indian artworks . These include not only the art made by living Indians but also the art found under the ground . Why did Americans dig for Indian remains ...
... artifacts were marketable and dealers were willing to pay exorbitant prices for Indian artworks . These include not only the art made by living Indians but also the art found under the ground . Why did Americans dig for Indian remains ...
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... Artifact collectors in the United States , Germany , and Japan are buyers on a large scale and do not publicize their items as ... artifacts from their taxes when donating them to museums . There is also contention between professional ...
... Artifact collectors in the United States , Germany , and Japan are buyers on a large scale and do not publicize their items as ... artifacts from their taxes when donating them to museums . There is also contention between professional ...
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... can and cannot be studied . A large portion of the anthropological community desires to exhume and hold remains and artifacts for study and display , with no intention of returning items to tribes . This attitude is expressed by 8 Mihesuah.
... can and cannot be studied . A large portion of the anthropological community desires to exhume and hold remains and artifacts for study and display , with no intention of returning items to tribes . This attitude is expressed by 8 Mihesuah.
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... artifacts on the condition that the materials would go into a museum that government would build . Two native - run museums opened in 1979 and 1980. Employing the concept of " social drama , " the essay explores fundamental and ...
... artifacts on the condition that the materials would go into a museum that government would build . Two native - run museums opened in 1979 and 1980. Employing the concept of " social drama , " the essay explores fundamental and ...
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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