Repatriation Reader
Who Owns American Indian Remains?
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2000
335 pages
978-0-8032-0631-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 sometimes explosive case studies are considered, ranging from Kennewick Man to the repatriation of Zuni Ahayu:da. Also featured is a detailed discussion of the background, meaning, and applicability of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, as well as the text of the act itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illus.
File size
6,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-0631-1 (9780803206311)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2000
University of Nebraska Press
€19.00
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Person
Devon Abbott Mihesuah is Professor of Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University. She is the author or editor of several works, including Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians (Nebraska 1998) and The Roads of My Relations.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Devon A. Mihesuah
- Part 1 History
- 1. The Representations of Indian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century American Anthropology -Robert E. Bieder
- 2. Digging for Identity: Reflections on the Cultural Background of Collecting -Curtis M. Hinsley Jr.
- Part 2 The Current Debate
- 3. An Unraveling Rope: The Looting of America's Past -Robert J. Mallouf
- 4. Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains -Patricia M. Landau and D. Gentry Steele
- 5. American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Difference -Devon A. Mihesuah
- 6. Repatriation: A Pawnee's Perspective -James Riding In
- Part 3 Legal and Ethical Issues
- 7. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Background and Legislative History -Jack F. Trope and Walter R. Echo-Hawk
- 8. Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American Indians -Vine Deloria Jr.
- 9. Ethics and the Reburial Controversy -Lynne Goldstein and Keith Kintigh
- 10. Some Scholars' Views on Reburial -Clement W. Meighan
- 11. A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy -Anthony L. Klesert and Shirley Powell
- 12. (Re)Constructing Bodies: Semiotic Sovereignty and the Debate over Kennewick Man - Suzanne J. Crawford
- Part 4 Studies in Resolution
- 13. Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems -T.J. Ferguson, Roger Anyon and Edmund J. Ladd
- 14. Repatriation as Social Drama: The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, 1922-1980 -Ira Jackins
- 15. Nagpra: A New Beginning, Not the End, for Osteological Analysis-A Hopi Perspective -Kurt E. Dongoske
- 16. A New and Different Archaeology? With a Postscript on the Impact of the Kennewick Dispute -Larry J. Zimmerman
- Appendix: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
- Contributors
- Source Acknowledgments
- Index
