Repatriation reader : who owns American Indian remains?

Mihesuah, Devion A. (Author). Mihesuah, Devon A. (Devon Abbott), 1957- (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0803282648 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
viii, 335 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction - Part 1: History - 1. The Representations of Indian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century American Anthropology - 2. Digging for Identity: Reflections on the Cultural Background of Collecting - Part 2: The Current Debate - 3. An Unraveling Rope: The Looting of America's Past - 4. Why Anthropologist Study Human Remains - 5. American Indians, Anthropologists, Posthunters and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences - 6. Repatriation: A Pawnee's Perspective - Part 3: Legal and Ethical Issues - 7. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatrition Act: Background and Legislative History - 8. Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American Indians - 9. Ethics and the Reburial Controversy - 10. Soem Scholars' Views on Reburial - 11. A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy - 12. (Re)Constructing Bodies: Sovereignty and the Debate over Kennewick Man - Part 4: Studies in Resolution - 13. Repatrication at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems - 14. Repatriation as Social Drama: The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, 1922-1980 - 15. NAGPRA :A New Beginning, Not the End, for Oteological Analysis-A Hopi Perspective - 16. A New and Different Archaelology? With a Postscript on the Impact of the Kennewick Dispute - Appendix.