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The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains. The Ancestral Remains of Indigenous peoples are today housed in museums and other collecting institutions globally. They were taken from anywhere the deceased can be found, and their removal occurred within a context of deep power imbalance within a colonial project that had a lasting effect on Indigenous peoples worldwide. Through the efforts of First Nations campaigners, many have returned home. However, a large number are still retained. In many countries, the repatriation issue has driven ...
In the Smaller Scope of Conscience
In 1989, The National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) was successfully passed after a long and intense struggle. One year later, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) followed. These federal repatriation statutes—arguably some of the most important laws in the history of anthropology, museology, and American Indian rights—enabled Native Americans to reclaim human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. Twenty years later, the controversy instigated by the creation of NMAIA and NAGPRA continues to simmer. In the Smaller Scope of Conscience is a thoughtful and detailed study of the ins and outs of the four-year p...
THE GOSPEL of JOHN, ONE DAY at a TIME
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1, 14). With those simple yet majestic words, the Apostle John began his gospel. The purpose of the final of the four gospels is found in John 20:31, “These (things) are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.”
"Come and see" was the first of many invitations that Jesus gave to the young fisherman from Galilee. The gospel invites the readers likewise to “come and see” the Light of the World … to taste the Bread of Life … to drink the thirst-quenching Living W...
Utimut
This book identifies a need to move beyond discussions of ownership, power and control in favour of exploring new kinds of partnerships between museums and the peoples or countries of origin, partnerships based on equitability and reconciliation.
The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property
Explores the ethical, legal, and intellectual issues related to excavating, selling, collecting, and owning cultural artifacts.
Federal Archeology
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The Dead and Their Possessions
Repatriation of human remains has become a key international heritage concern. This extensive collection of papers provides a survey of the current state of repatriation in terms of policy, practice and theory.
Prevention
This book takes a detailed look at different disciplinesreligion, law, public health, sociology, anthropologyas they relate to prevention. Professionals explore the need for collaborative efforts among the disciplines and share insights into the initial steps required for successful cooperation.
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Introduction -- Resistance: war gods -- Only after night fall -- Keepers of the sky -- Magic relief -- Tribal resolution -- All things will eat themselves up -- This far away -- Regret: a scalp from Sand Creek -- I have come to kill Indians -- The Bones Bill -- We are going back home -- Indian trophies -- Ac.35b -- A wound of the soul -- Reluctance: killer whale flotilla robe -- Masterless things -- Chief Shakes -- Johnson v. Chilkat Indian Village -- Cranes' last stand -- The weight was heavy -- Our culture is not dying -- Respect: Calusa skulls -- The hardest cases -- Long since completely disappeared -- Unidentifiable -- Their place of understanding -- Timeless limbo -- Before we just gave up -- Conclusion
