Author: Elizabeth Weiss
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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In this book, the author puts forth what one can learn from the study of human remains, how human remains have been obtained, the ethical dilemmas surrounding working with human remains, and the legal and political complexities of repatriation and reburial. The author intends to introduce readers to a fascinating realm of science rarely covered in the media, as opposed to the more popular fields of anthropology (e.g. forensics, archaeology, paleoanthropology).
Author: Elizabeth Weiss
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683401859
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Engaging a longstanding controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, Repatriation and Erasing the Past takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer offer scientific and legal perspectives on the way repatriation laws impact research. Weiss discusses how anthropologists draw conclusions about past peoples through their study of skeletons and mummies and argues that continued curation of human remains is important. Springer reviews American Indian law and how it helped to shape laws such as NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). He provides detailed analyses of cases including the Kennewick Man and the Havasupai genetics lawsuits. Together, Weiss and Springer critique repatriation laws and support the view that anthropologists should prioritize scientific research over other perspectives.
Author: Caroline E. Janney
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807882702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.
Author: Nigel Biggar
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589012868
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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No one can deny how September 11, 2001, has altered our understandings of "Peace" and "Justice" and "Civil Conflict." Those have become words with startling new life in our vocabularies. Yet "making" peace and "doing" justice must remain challenges that are among the highest callings of humanity—especially in a terror-heightened world. Nigel Biggar, Christian ethicist and editor of this now more than ever "must read" (Choice) volume, newly expanded and updated, addresses head-on the concept of a redemptive burying of the past, urging that the events of that infamous date be approached as a transnational model of conflict-and suggesting, wisely and calmly, that justice can be even the better understood if we should undertake the very important task of locating the sources of hostility, valid or not, toward the West. Burying the Past asks these important questions: How do newly democratic nations put to rest the conflicts of the past? Is granting forgiveness a politically viable choice for those in power? Should justice be restorative or retributive? Beginning with a conceptual approach to justice and forgiveness and moving to an examination of reconciliation on the political and on the psychological level, the collection examines the quality of peace as it has been forged in the civil conflicts in Rwanda, South Africa, Chile, Guatemala and Northern Ireland. There are times in history when "making peace" and "doing justice" seem almost impossible in the face of horrendous events. Those responses are understandably human. But it is in times just like these when humanity can—and must—rise to its possibilities and to its higher purposes in order to continue considering itself just and humane.
Author: Juilee Decker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538119951
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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Four articles cover archival practices at a small liberal arts college, repatriation of sacred objects, emergence of the African art collection at The Kreeger Museum, and exhibit creation process at The Rockefeller Archive Center.
Author: Margaret Clegg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107098386
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Highlights the importance of best practice in dealing with human remains, and discusses the key ethical and legal issues.
Author: Chip Colwell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022668444X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"--Provided by the publisher
Author: Paula Pryce
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802082237
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Officially extinct, Sinixt Interior Salish living in diaspora work to protect their history, identity, and social memory through the protection of, and the act of reburial at, an ancient burial ground.
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: Margaret Clegg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108850715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Working with human remains raises a whole host of ethical issues, from how the remains are used to how and where they are stored. Over recent years, attitudes towards repatriation and reburial have changed considerably and there are now laws in many countries to facilitate or compel the return of remains to claimant communities. Such changes have also brought about new ways of working with and caring for human remains, while enabling their ongoing use in research projects. This has often meant a reevaluation of working practices for both the curation of remains and in providing access to them. This volume will look at the issues and difficulties inherent in holding human remains with global origins, and how diverse institutions and countries have tackled these issues. Essential reading for advanced students in biological anthropology, museum studies, archaeology and anthropology, as well as museum curators, researchers and other professionals.
