The Long Way Home

The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-958-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Museums and Collections

Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and culturally significant objects have been returned to the care of indigenous communities, although the fate of bones and burial artifacts in numerous collections remains unresolved and, in some instances, the subject of controversy. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains.

In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickering, Michael

Turnbull, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Paul Turnbull

PART I: ANCESTORS, NOT SPECIMENS

Chapter 1. The Meanings and Values of Repatriation

Henry Atkinson

Chapter 2. Repatriating Our Ancestors: Who Will Speak for the Dead?

Franchesca Cubillo

PART II: REPATRIATION IN LAW AND POLICY

Chapter 3. Museums, Ethics and Human Remains in England: Recent Developments and Implications for the Future

Liz Bell

Chapter 4. Legal Impediments to the Repatriation of Cultural Objects to Indigenous Peoples

Kathryn Whitby-Last

Chapter 5. Parks Canada’s Policies that Guide the Repatriation of Human Remains and Objects

Virginia Myles

PART III: THE ETHICS AND CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF REPATRIATION

Chapter 6. What Might an Anthropology of Cultural Property Look Like?

Martin Skrydstrup

Chapter 7. Repatriation and the Concept of Inalienable Possession

Elizabeth Burns Coleman

Chapter 8. Consigned to Oblivion: People and Things Forgotten in the Creation of Australia

John Morton

PART IV: REPATRIATION AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING OF INDIGENOUS REMAINS

Chapter 9. The Vermillion Accord and the Significance of the History of the Scientific Procurement and Use of Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains

Paul Turnbull

Chapter 10. Eric Mjöberg and the Rhetorics of Human Remains

Claes Hallgren

PART V: MUSEUMS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND REPATRIATION

Chapter 11. Scientific Knowledge and Rights in Skeletal Remains - Dilemmas in the Curation of ‘Other’ People’s Bones

Howard Morphy

Chapter 12. Despatches From The Front Line? Museum Experiences in Applied Repatriation

Michael Pickering

Chapter 13. ‘You Keep It - We are Christians Here’: Repatriation of the Secret Sacred Where Indigenous World-views Have Changed

Kim Akerman

Chapter 14. The First ‘Stolen Generations’: Repatriation and Reburial in Ngarrindjeri Ruwe (country)

Steve Hemming and Chris Wilson

Notes on Contributors

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Turnbull, Paul
Paul Turnbull is a Professor of history in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland. He has written extensively on nineteenth-century racial thought, and the theft and repatriation of Indigenous bodily remains. His recent publications include (with Cressida Fforde and Jane Hubert) the co-edited volume The Dead and their Possessions (Routledge).

Pickering, Michael
Michael Pickering is the Head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program at the National Museum of Australia and has directed the Museum’s repatriation program for the past nine years. His research interests and publications include studies on material culture, cannibalism, hunter-gatherer archaeology and anthropology, heritage management, and repatriation.

Paul Turnbull is a Professor of history in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland. He has written extensively on nineteenth-century racial thought, and the theft and repatriation of Indigenous bodily remains. His recent publications include (with Cressida Fforde and Jane Hubert) the co-edited volume The Dead and their Possessions (Routledge).