Grave Matters Excavating California's Buried Past

Name: Grave Matters Excavating California's Buried Past
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ISBN: 9781597141628

ISBN-10: 1597141623

ISBN-13: 9781597141628

Edition: 2011

Authors: Tony Platt, Anthony M. Platt

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Whether by curious Boy Scouts and "backyard archaeologists" or competitive collectors and knowledge-hungry anthropologists, the excavation of native remains is a time-honored practice fraught with injustice and simmering resentments. Grave Matters is the history of the treatment of native remains in California and the story of the complicated relationship between researcher and researched. Tony Platt begins his journey with his son's funeral at Big Lagoon, a seaside village in pastoral Humboldt County in Northern California, once O-pyï¿½weg, a bustling center for the Yurok and the site of a plundered native cemetery. Platt travels the globe in search of the answer to the question How do we…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Heyday
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 237
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Definitions



Between the Lines



Present and Alive


Second Home


First Home


As Modern as Tomorrow


Memento Mori



It Is Not Gone Into Here


Purely Aboriginal


Grisly Statistics


Making History



Unpleasant Work


Trivial Articles


The Fresher the Better


The Collecting Bug



Joint Ventures


The Living and the Dead


Many Archaeologies


California Crania


Cabinets of Curiosities



Unwelcome Attention


Testy Relations


Good Digging


A Lasting Sense of Resentment



Vigorous Complaint


Raising Havoc


Moment of Truth


Unprecedented Accord



An Argument about the Past


Regime Change


Speaking the Unspeakable


A New Era


Crossroads


Scrupulous Forgetting



Never Too Late


Present Absences


Facing the Past


Notes


Sources and Bibliography


Index


About the Author