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Collecting the Dead - Archaeology and the Reburial Issue (Paperback)
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Collecting the Dead - Archaeology and the Reburial Issue (Paperback)
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The controversial 'reburial issue' first developed about thirty
years ago when some indigenous groups started to campaign for the
return of their ancestral human remains from museums and collecting
institutions, and these requests were refused. Since then, museums
in some countries have responded positively to repatriation
requests while those in others continue to refuse them. This
incisive book provides the reader with what has been generally
missing in the current debate and available literature - a detailed
historical understanding of how and why these collections were
amassed, and the responses of indigenous groups and collectors at
the time. The book focusses particularly on Australia as a
background to its documentation and examination of the issue. The
reburial question has had wide repercussions for all involved.
Today, the topic is of continuing relevance for archaeologists,
anthropologists and museum professionals, as well as for many
indigenous groups worldwide. The issue highlights two very
different approaches to items which hold exceptional importance in
many cultures - human remains.It is also about the relationship
between science and the people whose past is the subject of
academic enquiry, and how the sometimes hegemonic nature of this
relationship has, through the issue documented here, relentlessly
bubbled to the surface. What may appear at first a simple clash of
interests is thus revealed to have many deeper aspects.
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