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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... collections held by private land- owners , nor does it include the remains that have been shipped to Europe , Japan , and other places . The disturbance of buried human remains is not something recent ; it has always taken place all ...
... collections held by private land- owners , nor does it include the remains that have been shipped to Europe , Japan , and other places . The disturbance of buried human remains is not something recent ; it has always taken place all ...
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... collection of thousands of Indian remains in museums for study and display . Some archaeologists and anthropologists suspected , however , that collect- ing religious items might be unethical , mainly because the " living fossils ...
... collection of thousands of Indian remains in museums for study and display . Some archaeologists and anthropologists suspected , however , that collect- ing religious items might be unethical , mainly because the " living fossils ...
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... collections , most private collectors do not release details of their inven- tories , much less the items themselves . Artifact collectors in the United States , Germany , and Japan are buyers on a large scale and do not publicize their ...
... collections , most private collectors do not release details of their inven- tories , much less the items themselves . Artifact collectors in the United States , Germany , and Japan are buyers on a large scale and do not publicize their ...
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... collect . In chapter 13 , " Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni : Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems , " T. J. Ferguson , Roger Anyon , and Edmund J. Ladd , anthropologists who have worked extensively with Zunis on repatriation issues ...
... collect . In chapter 13 , " Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni : Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems , " T. J. Ferguson , Roger Anyon , and Edmund J. Ladd , anthropologists who have worked extensively with Zunis on repatriation issues ...
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... collect Indian remains and artifacts and who are faced with requests from tribes wanting items returned to them ; mem- bers of the general public who plunder Indian burials for profit ; and those who know little about the issue and who ...
... collect Indian remains and artifacts and who are faced with requests from tribes wanting items returned to them ; mem- bers of the general public who plunder Indian burials for profit ; and those who know little about the issue and who ...
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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