The long way home : the meanings and values of repatriation / edited by Paul Turnbull and Michael Pickering.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turnbull, Paul, editor.

Pickering, Michael, editor.

Series:

Museums and collections ; volume 2.

Museums and collections ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Grave goods--Moral and ethical aspects.

Grave goods.

Cultural property--Repatriation.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s 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 artifacts in numerous collections remains unresolved and, in some instances, the subject of controversy. 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. 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.

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Ancestors, Not Specimens; Chapter 1 The Meanings and Values of Repatriation; Chapter 2 Repatriating Our Ancestors: Who Will Speak for the Dead?; Part II: Repatriation in Law and Policy; Chapter 3 Museums, Ethics and Human Remains in England: Recent Developments and Implications for the Future; Chapter 4 Legal Impediments to the Repatriation of Cultural Objects to Indigenous Peoples; Chapter 5 Parks Canada's Policies that Guide the Repatriation of Human Remains and Objects; Part III: The Ethics and Cultural Implications of Repatriation

Chapter 6 What Might an Anthropology of Cultural Property Look Like?Chapter 7 Repatriation and the Concept of Inalienable Possession; Chapter 8 Consigned to Oblivion: People and Things Forgotten in the Creation of Australia; Part IV: Repatriation and the History of Scientific Collecting of Indigenous Remains; Chapter 9 The Vermillion Accord of the Significance of the History of the Scientific Procurement and Use of Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains; Chapter 10 Eric Mjoberg and the Rhetorics of Human Remains; Part IV: Museums, Indigenous Peoples and Repatriation

Chapter 11 Scientific Knowledge and Rights in Skeletal Remains - Dilemmas in the Curation of 'Other' People's BonesChapter 12 Despatches from the Front Line? Museum Experiences in Applied Repatriation; Chapter 13 'You Keep it - We are Christians Here': Repatriation of the Secret Sacred Where Indigenous World-views Have Changed; Chapter 14 The First 'Stolen Generations': Repatriation and Reburial in Ngarrindjeri Ruwe (country); Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84545-959-8