Repatriation

Author : Paul Turnbull,Michael Pickering
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781845459598

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The Long Way Home by Paul Turnbull,Michael Pickering Pdf

Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and culturally significant objects have been returned to the care of indigenous communities, although the fate of bones and burial artifacts in numerous collections remains unresolved and, in some instances, the subject of controversy. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains.

Author : Rex Brynen,Roula El-Rifai
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552502310

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Palestinian Refugees by Rex Brynen,Roula El-Rifai Pdf

The Palestinian refugee issue remains a central component of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This book explores the demographic and developmental challenges which the return of refugees to a future Palestinian state would generate.

Author : Elizabeth Weiss,James W. Springer
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401858

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Repatriation and Erasing the Past by Elizabeth Weiss,James W. Springer Pdf

Engaging a longstanding 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 critique repatriation laws and support the view that anthropologists should prioritize scientific research over other perspectives.

Author : Vanessa Tünsmeyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030890476

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Repatriation of Sacred Indigenous Cultural Heritage and the Law by Vanessa Tünsmeyer Pdf

This book examines the ways in which law can be used to structure the return of indigenous sacred cultural heritage to indigenous communities, referred to as repatriation in this volume. In particular, it aims at developing legal structures that align repatriation with contemporary international human rights standards. To do so, it gathers the most valuable lessons learned from different repatriation laws and frameworks adopted in the United States and Canada. In both countries, very different ways of approaching repatriation have been used for several decades, highlighting the context-dependent nature of repatriation. The volume is divided into four parts, looking first at international law, then at the national legal landscape in the United States, followed by Canada, before the different repatriation models are evaluated against the backdrop of human rights law standards. Emphasis is placed not only on repatriation-specific legislation but also on the legal context in which it was developed and operates. In turn, the fourth part develops various models on the basis of these experiences that can be aligned with contemporary indigenous and cultural rights. The book ends by considering the models’ suitability for international repatriation and the lessons that can be learned from them. The primary audience includes those addressing the legal hurdles to repatriation, be they researchers, policymakers, communities, or museums.

Author : Greg Johnson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0813926610

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Sacred Claims by Greg Johnson Pdf

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects--including "sacred objects"--from federally funded institutions. Although the repatriation movement among Native Americans has heretofore received scholarly attention specifically focused on this act, Sacred Claims is the first book to analyze the ways in which religious discourse is used to articulate repatriation claims. Greg Johnson takes this act as one instance in a larger context wherein native peoples around the globe must engage legal arenas in order to preserve their heritage. Methodologically, Sacred Claims is based on a close reading of government documents concerning the law and participant observation in a variety of NAGPRA-related events and provides the background and legislative history of the law, the life history of the act's axial term cultural affiliation (the most delicate and least understood aspect of NAGPRA), and several case studies of highly visible and contentious Hawaiian repatriation disputes. Johnson then moves beyond the strictly legal context to analyze NAGPRA discourse in the public realm. He concludes by way of a theoretical treatment of the foregoing issues, arguing that religious language was the chief means by which native representatives ultimately persuaded non-native audiences of the applicability of widely-held human rights principles to their cultural remains. Theorizing modes of cultural vitality in the repatriation context, Johnson argues that living tradition is not found in the objects themselves but is instead located in struggles over them. With the law on the brink of receiving crucial tests, and repatriation issues making daily headlines in Native American and Hawaiian news, Sacred Claims is a timely and necessary examination of these issues.

Author : Mollie Gerver
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474437493

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Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation by Mollie Gerver Pdf

Mollie Gerver considers when bodies such as the UN, government agencies and NGOs ought to help refugees to return home. Drawing on original interviews with 172 refugees before and after repatriation, she resolves six moral puzzles arising from repatriation using the methods of analytical philosophy to provide a more ethical framework.

Author : Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803206275

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Grave Injustice by Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare Pdf

Grave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriated, collected, manipulated, sold, and displayed by Europeans and Americans. Anthropologist Kathleen S. Fine-Dare focuses on the history and culture of both the impetus to collect and the movement to repatriate Native American remains. Using a straightforward historical framework and illuminating case studies, Fine-Dare first examines the changing cultural reasons for the appropriation of Native American remains. She then traces the succession of incidents, laws, and changing public and Native attitudes that have shaped the repatriation movement since the late nineteenth century. Her discussion and examples make clear that the issue is a complex one, that few clear-cut heroes or villains make up the history of the repatriation movement, and that little consensus about policy or solutions exists within or beyond academic and Native communities. The concluding chapters of this history take up the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which Fine-Dare considers as a legal and cultural document. This highly controversial federal law was the result of lobbying by American Indian and Native Hawaiian peoples to obtain federal support for the right to bring back to their communities the human remains and associated objects that are housed in federally funded institutions all over the United States. Grave Injustice is a balanced introduction to a longstanding and complicated problem that continues to mobilize and threatens to divide Native Americans and the scholars who work with and write about them.

Author : Gerald T. Conaty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1771990198

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We are Coming Home by Gerald T. Conaty Pdf

Author : Masako Yonekawa,Akiko Sugiki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811528507

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Repatriation, Insecurity, and Peace by Masako Yonekawa,Akiko Sugiki Pdf

This book analyzes three major issues related to refugees: repatriation and its accompanying concerns – peace and security. Since the late 1980s, repatriation has been considered the most appropriate solution for refugees. This applies if the home country is peaceful, but often repatriation takes places in conflict situations, which can lead to national and human insecurity problems. Rwanda is one of the countries where the question of repatriation has become highly controversial since the 1990s. The United Nations maintains that Rwanda has changed significantly since the 1994 genocide, and today enjoys an essential level of peace and security. This explains why the UN has promoted repatriation and recommended the cessation of Rwandan refugee status, yet the vast majority of refugees have refused to return to the country. Providing insights from researchers, former UN staff members, journalists, and, most importantly, former Rwandan refugees themselves into both the theory and practice of refugees' repatriation as well as the security and peace issues, this book appeals to postgraduate students, academics, policymakers, and practitioners working for international organizations and NGOs.

Author : Robin Pascoe
Publisher : Expatriate Press Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0968676049

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Homeward Bound by Robin Pascoe Pdf

Author : Frank Gunderson,Robert C. Lancefield,Bret D. Woods
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190659806

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The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation by Frank Gunderson,Robert C. Lancefield,Bret D. Woods Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation is a significant edited volume that critically explores issues surrounding musical repatriation, chiefly of recordings from audiovisual archives. The Handbook provides a dynamic and richly layered collection of stories and critical questions for anyone engaged or interested in repatriation or archival work. Repatriation often is overtly guided by an ethical mandate to "return" something to where it belongs, by such means as working to provide reconnection and Indigenous control and access to cultural materials. Essential as these mandates can be, this remarkable volume reveals dimensions to repatriation beyond those which can be understood as simple acts of "giving back" or returning an archive to its "homeland." Musical repatriation can entail subjective negotiations involving living subjects, intangible elements of cultural heritage, and complex histories, situated in intersecting webs of power relations and manifold other contexts. The forty-eight expert authors of this book's thirty-eight chapters engage with multifaceted aspects of musical repatriation, situating it as a concept encompassing widely ranging modes of cultural work that can be both profoundly interdisciplinary and embedded at the core of ethnographic and historical scholarship. These authors explore a rich variety of these processes' many streams, making the volume a compelling space for critical analysis of musical repatriation and its wider significance. The Handbook presents these chapters in a way that offers numerous emergent perspectives, depending on one's chosen trajectory through the volume. From retracing the paths of archived collections to exploring memory, performance, research goals, institutional power, curation, preservation, pedagogy and method, media and transmission, digital rights and access, policy and privilege, intellectual property, ideology, and the evolving institutional norms that have marked the preservation and ownership of musical archives-The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation addresses these key topics and more in a deep, richly detailed, and diverse exploration.

Author : Richard Black,Khalid Koser
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857457189

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The End of the Refugee Cycle? by Richard Black,Khalid Koser Pdf

At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped, would become the "decade of repatriation." However, although over nine million refugees were repatriated worldwide between 1991 and 1995, there are reasons to believe that it will not necessarily be a durable solution for refugees. It certainly has become clear that "the end of the refugee cycle" has been much more complex, and ultimately more elusive, than expected. The changing constructions and realities of refugee repatriation provide the backdrop for this book which presents new empirical research on examples of refugee repatriation and reconstruction. Apart from providing up-to-date material, it also fills a more fundamental gap in the literature which has tended to be based on pedagogical reasoning rather than actual field research. Adopting a global perspective, this volume draws together conclusions from highly varied experiences of refugee repatriation and defines repatriation and reconstruction as part of a wider and interrelated refugee cycle of displacement, exile and return. The contributions come from authors with a wealth of relevant practical and academic experience, spanning the continents of Africa, Asia, Central America, and Europe.

Author : Cara Krmpotich
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442614505

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The Force of Family by Cara Krmpotich Pdf

""Explains the intimate tie between Haida repatriation and kinship in its associated forms of memory, history, and respect."--Back cover

Author : Cara Krmpotich,Laura Peers,the Haida Repatriation Committee and staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774825436

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This Is Our Life by Cara Krmpotich,Laura Peers,the Haida Repatriation Committee and staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum Pdf

In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to the Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum to work with several hundred heritage treasures. Featuring contributions from all the participants and a rich selection of illustrations, This Is Our Life details the remarkable story of the Haida Project � from the planning to the encounter and through the years that followed. A fascinating look at the meaning behind objects, the value of repatriation, and the impact of historical trajectories like colonialism, this is also a story of the understanding that grew between the Haida people and museum staff.

Author : Francisco E. Balderrama,Raymond Rodríguez
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0826339735

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Decade of Betrayal by Francisco E. Balderrama,Raymond Rodríguez Pdf

Examines the social and economic effects on the migrant Mexican families subjected to forced relocation by the United States during the 1930s.