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Repatriation and erasing the past /Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781683401858
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • CC79 .R473 2020
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Contents:
Paleoindians : The Understudied Individuals -- North American Mummies : Lost Opportunities -- Biological Relationships : Missing Links -- Reconstructing the Past : Correcting Fallacies -- Part II. Human Remains and the Law -- NAGPRA and Beyond : Repatriation and Related Laws in the United States -- Other Repatriation Movements in the United States -- Part III. A Critique of the Repatriation Movement -- Reburial, Religion, and Race -- Oral Tradition as Evidence for Repatriation -- Indian Treatment of the Human Body -- Repatriation and the End of Scientific Freedom
Subject: "Engaging a current controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, this volume takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds, offering scientific and legal perspectives on the ways repatriation laws impact research"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Part I. The Science of Human Remains -- Paleoindians : The Understudied Individuals -- North American Mummies : Lost Opportunities -- Biological Relationships : Missing Links -- Reconstructing the Past : Correcting Fallacies -- Part II. Human Remains and the Law -- NAGPRA and Beyond : Repatriation and Related Laws in the United States -- Other Repatriation Movements in the United States -- Part III. A Critique of the Repatriation Movement -- Reburial, Religion, and Race -- Oral Tradition as Evidence for Repatriation -- Indian Treatment of the Human Body -- Repatriation and the End of Scientific Freedom

"Engaging a current controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, this volume takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds, offering scientific and legal perspectives on the ways repatriation laws impact research"--

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