Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority: 01 (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) - Hardcover

Jenkins, Tiffany

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415879604 ISBN 13: 9780415879606

Verlag: Routledge, 2010

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Book by Jenkins Tiffany

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'This is an excellent and detailed introduction to an important topic in the museum field today.' – Annette Rein, ICOM News

'Fluent and well-argued' – Minerva

 'describes, with thinly disguised dismay, the changes that led the British Museum and Natural History Museum to abandon their opposition to repatriating human remains.' – The Art Newspaper

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Since the late 1970s human remains in museum collections have been subject to claims and controversies, such as demands for repatriation by indigenous groups who suffered under colonization. These requests have been strongly contested by scientists who research the material and consider it unique evidence.

This book charts the influences at play on the contestation over human remains and examines the construction of this problem from a cultural perspective. It shows that claims on dead bodies are not confined to once colonized groups. A group of British Pagans, Honouring the Ancient Dead, formed to make claims on skeletons from the British Isles, and ancient human remains, bog bodies and Egyptian mummies, which have not been requested by any group, have become the focus of campaigns initiated by members of the profession, at times removed from display in the name of respect.

By drawing on empirical research including extensive interviews with the claims-making groups, ethnographic work, document, media, and policy analysis, Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections demonstrates that strong internal influences do in fact exist. The only book to examine the construction of contestation over human remains from a sociological perspective, it advances an emerging area of academic research, setting the terms of debate, synthesizing disparate ideas, and making sense of a broader cultural focus on dead bodies in the contemporary period.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415879604
• ISBN 13: 9780415879606
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174