Collecting the dead : archaeology and the reburial issue /
"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 h...
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London :
Duckworth,
2004
London : 2004 |
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Table of Contents:
- The analysis of human difference from Hippocrates to Darwin
- Evolution, the great collections and the tenacity of 'race'
- Collecting the dead
- Response and motivation
- Implications and context
- Reburial : the development of an issue
- Fossils and ancestors
- The repatriation issue in the UK
- Recent developments in the UK
- Discussion
- 1 The analysis of human difference from Hippocrates to Darwin
- 2. Evolution, the great collections and the tenacity of 'race'
- 3. Collecting the dead
- 4. Response and motivation
- 5. Implications and context
- 6. Reburial : the development of an issue
- 7. Fossils and ancestors
- 8. The repatriation issue in the UK
- 9. Recent developments in the UK
- 10. Discussion.