{"product_id":"the-force-of-family-repatriation-kinship-and-memory-on-haida-gwaii","title":"Force of Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. In the summer of 2010, they achieved what many thought was impossible: the repatriation of ancestral remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. \u003cem\u003eThe Force of Family\u003c\/em\u003e is an ethnography of those efforts to repatriate ancestral remains from museums around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on objects made to honour the ancestors, Cara Krmpotich explores how memory, objects, and kinship connect and form a cultural archive. Since the mid-1990s, Haidas have been making button blankets and bentwood boxes with clan crest designs, hosting feasts for hundreds of people, and composing and choreographing new songs and dances in the service of repatriation. The book comes to understand how shared experiences of sewing, weaving, dancing, cooking and feasting lead to the Haida notion of “respect,” the creation of kinship and collective memory, and the production of a cultural archive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47826140168536,"sku":"9781442646575","price":61.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781442646575__67ae0ff0dfb19.jpg?v=1741135231","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-force-of-family-repatriation-kinship-and-memory-on-haida-gwaii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}