Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits : Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture /

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? Thes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colwell, Chip (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Temas:
Anthropological ethics > United States.
Anthropological museums and collections - United States.
Anthropological museums and collections > United States.
Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Cultural property > Repatriation > United States.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Repatriation > United States.
Indians of North America > Material culture > United States.
Indians of North America > United States > Antiquities.
Museums and Indians > United States.
HISTORY / General.
NAGPRA.
Native Americans.
human remains.
museums.
reburial.
repatriation.
sacred objects.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • I. Resistance: War Gods
  • 1. Only After Night Fall
  • 2. Keepers of the Sky
  • 3. Magic Relief
  • 4. Tribal Resolution
  • 5. All Things Will Eat Themselves Up
  • 6. This Far Away
  • II. Regret: A Scalp from Sand Creek
  • 7. I Have Come to Kill Indians
  • 8. The Bones Bill
  • 9. We Are Going Back Home
  • 10. Indian Trophies
  • 11. AC.35B
  • 12. A Wound of the Soul
  • III. Reluctance: Killer Whale Flotilla Robe
  • 13. Masterless Things
  • 14. Chief Shakes
  • 15. Johnson v. Chilkat Indian Village
  • 16. Last Stand
  • 17. The Weight Was Heavy
  • 18. Our Culture Is Not Dying
  • IV. Respect: Calusa Skulls
  • 19. The Hardest Cases
  • 20. Long Since Completely Disappeared
  • 21. Unidentifiable
  • 22. Their Place of Understanding
  • 23. Timeless Limbo
  • 24. Before We Just Gave Up
  • Conclusion
  • A Note on the Terms American Indian, Native American, Etc.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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