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Grave matters : excavating California's buried past / Tony Platt.
Penn Museum Library E99.Y97 P57 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Platt, Anthony M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yurok Indians--California--Big Lagoon--Antiquities.
- Yurok Indians.
- Yurok Indians--Funeral customs and rites--California--Big Lagoon.
- Yurok Indians--California--Big Lagoon--Government relations.
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Moral and ethical aspects--California--Big Lagoon.
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- Grave goods--Moral and ethical aspects--California--Big Lagoon.
- Grave goods.
- Archaeologists--Professional ethics--California--Big Lagoon.
- Archaeologists.
- Cultural property--Protection--California--Big Lagoon.
- Cultural property.
- Cultural property--Protection.
- Archaeologists--Professional ethics.
- Antiquities.
- Big Lagoon (Calif.)--Antiquities.
- Big Lagoon (Calif.).
- Big Lagoon Rancheria, California--Antiquities.
- Big Lagoon Rancheria, California.
- California--Big Lagoon.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday, [2011]
- Summary:
- A fascinating look at the conflicts arising from reconstructing a native peoples past. Explores the relationship of archeology and the competing interests that color the recovery of Indian remains
- Contents:
- 1 Between the Lines 1
- 2 Present and Alive 5
- Second Home
- First Home
- As Modern as Tomorrow
- Memento Mori
- 3 It Is Not Gone Into Here 32
- Purely Aboriginal
- Grisly Statistics
- Making History
- 4 Unpleasant Work 64
- Trivial Articles
- The Fresher the Better
- The Collecting Bug
- 5 Joint Ventures 81
- The Living and the Dead
- Many Archaeologies
- California Crania
- Cabinets of Curiosities
- 6 Unwelcome Attention 108
- Testy Relations
- Good Digging
- A Lasting Sense of Resentment
- 7 Vigorous Complaint 122
- Raising Havoc
- Moment of Truth
- Unprecedented Accord
- 8 An Argument about the Past 151
- Regime Change
- Speaking the Unspeakable
- A New Era
- Crossroads
- Scrupulous Forgetting
- 9 Never Too Late 179
- Present Absences
- Facing the Past 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781597141628
- 1597141623
- OCLC:
- 710903884
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