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Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections
Since the late 1970s human remains in museum collections have been subject to claims and controversies, such as demands for repatriation by indigenous groups who suffered under colonization. These requests have been strongly contested by scientists who research the material and consider it unique evidence.
This book charts the influences at play on the contestation over human remains and examines the construction of this problem from a cultural perspective. It shows that claims on dead bodies are not confined to once colonized groups. A group of British Pagans, Honouring the Ancient Dead, formed to make claims on skeletons from the British Isles, and ancient human remains, bog bodies and Egyptian mummies, which have not been requested by any group, have become the focus of campaigns initiated by members of the profession, at times removed from display in the name of respect.
By drawing on empirical research including extensive interviews with the claims-making groups, ethnographic work, document, media, and policy analysis, Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections demonstrates that strong internal influences do in fact exist. The only book to examine the construction of contestation over human remains from a sociological perspective, it advances an emerging area of academic research, setting the terms of debate, synthesizing disparate ideas, and making sense of a broader cultural focus on dead bodies in the contemporary period.
Dr Tiffany Jenkins is arts and society director of the London based think-tank, the Institute of Ideas. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and a member of the Working Group on Cultural Property and Heritage Law. She writes and comments for the national media on cultural matters.
'This is an excellent and detailed introduction to an important topic in the museum field today.' – Annette Rein, ICOM News
'Fluent and well-argued' – Minerva
'describes, with thinly disguised dismay, the changes that led the British Museum and Natural History Museum to abandon their opposition to repatriating human remains.' – The Art Newspaper
Introduction 1.Transforming Concerns about Human Remains into an Issue 2. Scientists Contest Repatriation 3.The Crisis of Cultural Authority 4.The Rise and Impact of Pagan Claims-Makers 5. Explaining Why Human Remains Are the Problem 6. Covering Up the Mummies. Concluding Thoughts
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This is our life : Haida material heritage and changing museum practice
\"In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation came to Oxford and London to work with several hundred heritage treasures at the Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum. The encounter set a new course for the relationships between the custodians of these cultural artifacts and the indigenous people for whom the objects are a direct link to their past. Emotional and illuminating, tense and challenging, it was a transformative visit that none would soon forget. Featuring contributions from Haida people -- weavers, carvers, language speakers, youth, and Elders -- and museum staff -- curators, conservators, and collections management staff -- who participated in the project, and a rich selection of illustrations, This Is Our Life details the remarkable story of the Haida Project, from the planning to the visit itself and through the years that followed. A fascinating look at the meaning behind objects, the value of repatriation, and the impact of historical trajectories like colonialism, this is also a tender story of the understanding that grew between the Haida visitors and museum staff, as conflicting ideas about subjects as difficult as the repatriation of human remains and the white-gloved institutional approach to handling historical objects became a two-way dialogue.\" -- Publisher's website.
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The Dead and their Possessions
Inspired by a key session for the World Archaeological Congress in South Africa, The Dead and their Possessions is the first book to tackle the principle, policy and practice of repatriating museum artefacts, rather than cultural heritage in general.
Increasingly, indigenous people world-wide are asserting their fundamental right to determine the future of the human remains of their ancestors, and are requesting their return, often for reburial, with varying degrees of success. This repatriation campaign has become hugely significant in universities and museums where human remains uncovered through archaeological excavation have been retained for the scientific study of past populations.
This book will be invaluable to those involved in the collection and repatriation of remains and cultural objects to indigenous groups.
\"Jane Hubert and Cressida Fforde introduce 27 engrossing papers on the problems of ethics and ownership arising over how First World biological anthropologists and museums treat human remains from 'developing' countries and Fourth World peoples.\" - Antiquity
Cressida Fforde is an independent researcher and holds an honorary post at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. Jane Hubert is Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Psychiatry of Disability at St George's Hospital Medical School. Paul Turnball is Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
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America and the return of Nazi contraband : the recovery of Europe's cultural treasures
In the ruins of Hitler's Third Reich, the Americans found many paintings, books, manuscripts, and sculptures hidden away. This book reveals how the American Military Government in Germany, headed by a few dozen dedicated officers, coped with restoring Europe's cultural heritage.
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The Problem of Ownership in the Return of African Cultural Artifacts: Critical Reflections on Kwame A. Appiah's 'Whose Culture Is It?'
In this essay, I argue that among the problems that the return of African cultural artifacts portends is the issue of ownership, involving who the legitimate owners of artifacts are and what consequence this has concerning the repatriation or restoration or return of African artifacts to African communities. In the cosmopolitanism of artifacts proposed by Kwame A. Appiah, ownership ought not to supersede the possibility of universal or wider aesthetic appreciation. Appiah argues that such artifacts are individuals' contributions to the world's cultural heritage, which are to be aesthetically appreciated and lived with as works of art and not an exclusive entitlement of a particular culture. What this implies is that the West has no moral obligation to return the cultural artifacts wrongfully taken from Africa, since the question of ownership is still unclear. I critically reflect on Appiah's cosmopolitanism of African cultural artifacts in this essay. I do so by reconstructing the idea of ownership using Ifeanyi Menkiti's Afro-communitarian ideal, which recognizes communal ownership, and by introducing the notion of the African phenomenological aesthetic experience. I demonstrate that the idea of communal ownership necessarily answers the question of ownership, and the notion of African phenomenological aesthetic experience establishes descendants' interest in experiencing and living with cultural artifacts. In turn, I argue that both communal ownership and African phenomenological aesthetic experience show that the West has a moral obligation to return those cultural artifacts belonging to Africa.
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Naamiwan's Drum
Naamiwan's Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe
medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. The
book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on
repatriation and on anthropology itself.
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Protection of first nations cultural heritage : laws, policy, and reform
No detailed description available for \"Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage\".
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