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-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, scholarly, and economic dimensions of this hotly debated issue. While historians and archaeologists debate continuing non-Native interests and obligations, Native American scholars speak to the key cultural issues embedded in their ancestral pasts. A variety of sometimes explosive case studies are considered, ranging from Kennewick Man to the repatriation of Zuni Ahayu:da. Also featured is a detailed discussion of the background, meaning, and applicability of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, as well as the text of the act itself.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• Indigenous peoples
• Americas
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska Paperback
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2000
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803206311
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

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. isbn0-8032-8264-8 (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 r462000 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

viiiContents 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