|
Showing 1 - 2 of
2 matches in All Departments
The difficult and sensitive issue of how museums and other
repositories should treat human remains in their possession is here
addressed through a number of important case studies. How to care
for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of
their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be
answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a
systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other
repositories in the United Kingdom, providing a baseline for
understanding the scope and nature of human remains collections and
the practices related to their care. The introduction sets
UnitedKingdom practices within an international context, while
subsequent chapters, all written by leading experts, cover a wide
range of topics through key case studies: legislation and ethical
obligations; issues of both long-term andshort-term care; differing
perspectives associated with human remains collections in different
parts of the United Kingdom; a comparison of attitudes and
approaches in large institutions and small museums; the creative
use of redundant churches; and challenges facing research/teaching
laboratories and collections resulting from recent archaeological
excavations. Myra Giesen is Lecturer at the International Centre
for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University.
Contributors: Myra Giesen, Liz White, Hedley Swain, Charlotte
Woodhead, Kirsty McCarrison, Victoria Park, Jennifer Sharp, Mark A.
Hall, Rebecca Redfern, Jelena Bekvalac, Gillian Scott, Simon Mays,
Charlotte Roberts, Jacqueline I. McKinley, Mike Parker Pearson,
Mike Pitts, Duncan Sayer, Margaret Clegg.
This book explores how cultural heritage and its care are
translated in UK law and non-law instruments. It analyses how
communities of care look after cultural heritage because they care
about it. These communities include the international and national
community, national and local governments, courts, professional
bodies, institutions such as museums as well as community groups.
'Care' refers to the varied ways in which communities engage with
cultural heritage to maintain it, sustain relationships about it
and with it, use it and provide access to it, with a view to
passing it on to future generations. The book also assesses how far
these nested practices of care assist communities of care in
providing respectful, empathetic and dialogical care to navigate
harm to cultural heritage. It will be of interest to scholars of
cultural heritage studies across disciplines, including law,
sociology and anthropology, as well as policymakers and
practitioners in cultural heritage management.
|
|