Repatriation Reader Who Owns American Indian Remains?

Name: Repatriation Reader Who Owns American Indian Remains?
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ISBN: 9780803282643

ISBN-10: 0803282648

ISBN-13: 9780803282643

Edition: 2000

Authors: Devon A. Mihesuah, Devon Mihesuah

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In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, scholarly, and economic dimensions of this hotly debated issue. While historians and archaeologists debate continuing non-Native interests and obligations, Native American scholars speak to the key cultural issues embedded in their ancestral pasts. A variety of…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 10/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 335
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction




History



The Representations of Indian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century American Anthropology




Digging for Identity: Reflections on the Cultural Background of Collecting




The Current Debate



An Unraveling Rope: The Looting of America's Past




Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains




American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences




Repatriation: A Pawnee's Perspective




Legal and Ethical Issues



The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Background and Legislative History




Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American Indians




Ethics and the Reburial Controversy




Some Scholars' Views on Reburial




A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy




(Re)Constructing Bodies: Semiotic Sovereignty and the Debate over Kennewick Man




Studies in Resolution



Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems




Repatriation as Social Drama: The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, 1922-1980




NAGPRA: A New Beginning, Not the End, for Osteological Analysis--A Hopi Perspective




A New and Different Archaeology? With a Postscript on the Impact of the Kennewick Dispute




Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act


Contributors


Source Acknowledgments


Index