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Biological Relatedness
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First Amendment
graves
gravesites
Havasupai
Human Remains
Kennewick Man
looters
Mummies
NAGPRA
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Native American Religion
Native American Skeletal Remains
Native Americans
Objective Knowledge
Oral Tradition
Paleo-Indian Reburials
Paleoindians
Peopling of the Americas
Reburial
religion
Repatriation
Skeletal Collections
treasure hunters
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- ISBN 9781683401575
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2020
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Engaging a current controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, Repatriation and Erasing the Past takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer offer scientific and legal perspectives on the way repatriation laws impact research.Weiss discusses how anthropologists draw conclusions about past peoples through their study of skeletons and mummies and argues that continued curation of human remains is important. Springer reviews American Indian law and how it helped to shape laws such as NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). He provides detailed analyses of cases including the Kennewick Man and the Havasupai genetics lawsuits. Together, Weiss and Springer offer a thoughtful critique of repatriation—both the ideology and the laws that support it. Repatriation and Erasing the Past is a helpful assessment for scholars and students who wish to understand both sides of the debate.
Elizabeth Weiss, professor of anthropology at San José State University, is the author of Reading the Bones: Activity, Biology, and Culture.
James W. Springer is a retired attorney and anthropologist based in Peoria, Illinois.
James W. Springer is a retired attorney and anthropologist based in Peoria, Illinois.
