ebook img

Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? PDF

346 Pages·2000·6.71 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?

Repatriation Reader Who Owns American Indian Remains? Edited by Devon A. Mihesuah University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London Acknowledgments for the use of previously published material appear on page 325, which constitutes an extension of the copyright page. ∫ 2000 by the University of Nebraska Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America ! Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Repatriation reader : who owns American Indian remains? / edited by Devon A. Mihesuah. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8032-8264-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Indians of North America—Material culture—Law and legislation. 2. Indians of North America— Antiquities—Law and legislation. 3. Human remains (Archaeology)—Law and legislation—United States. 4. Cultural property—Repatriation—United States— Philosophy. 5. Cultural property—Government policy—United States. 6. Anthropological ethics—United States. 7. United States. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. I. Mihesuah, Devon A. (Devon Abbott), 1957– e98.m34 r46 2000 973.04%97—dc21 00–036380 N To Don Worcester, Professor Emeritus of History, Texas Christian University Contents Introduction Devon A. Mihesuah, 1 Part 1: History 1. The Representations of Indian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century American Anthropology Robert E. Bieder, 19 2. Digging for Identity: Reflections on the Cultural Background of Collecting Curtis M. Hinsley Jr., 37 Part 2: The Current Debate 3. An Unraveling Rope: The Looting of America’s Past Robert J. Mallouf, 59 4. Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains Patricia M. Landau and D. Gentry Steele, 74 5. American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences Devon A. Mihesuah, 95 6. Repatriation: A Pawnee’s Perspective James Riding In, 106 Part 3: Legal and Ethical Issues 7. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Background and Legislative History Jack F. Trope and Walter R. Echo-Hawk, 123 8. Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American Indians Vine Deloria Jr., 169 9. Ethics and the Reburial Controversy Lynne Goldstein and Keith Kintigh, 180 viii Contents 10. Some Scholars’ Views on Reburial Clement W. Meighan, 190 11. A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy Anthony L. Klesert and Shirley Powell, 200 12. (Re)Constructing Bodies: Semiotic Sovereignty and the Debate over Kennewick Man Suzanne J. Crawford, 211 Part 4: Studies in Resolution 13. Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems T. J. Ferguson, Roger Anyon, and Edmund J. Ladd, 239 14. Repatriation as Social Drama: The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, 1922–1980 Ira Jacknis, 266 15. NAGPRA: A New Beginning, Not the End, for Osteological Analysis—A Hopi Perspective Kurt E. Dongoske, 282 16. A New and Different Archaeology? With a Postscript on the Impact of the Kennewick Dispute Larry J. Zimmerman, 294 Appendix: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 307 Contributors, 321 Source Acknowledgments, 325 Index, 327 Repatriation Reader

Description:
In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Nat
See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.