Author: Vicki Cassman
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0759109540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a collection of information concerning the care and conservation of human remains in museums and academic institutions.
Author: Jack Lohman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9789231040214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Human Remains and Museum Practice reflects the discussions held at the Museum of London as part of an international symposium on the political and ethical dimensions of the collection and display of human remains in museums. It explores fundamental issues of collecting and displaying human remains, including ethics, interpretation and repatriation as they apply in different parts of the world. The first section looks at the overriding issues, whilst the second part describes the practices in different parts of the world.
Author: Tiffany Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1136897860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of the construction of contestation over human remains from a sociological perspective, this work advances an emerging area of academic research, setting the terms of debate, synthesizing disparate ideas, & making sense of a broader cultural focus on dead bodies in the contemporary period.
Author: Myra J. Giesen
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1843838060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in the UK to the ownership, care, storage, display and interpretation of human remains." -- back cover.
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Museum Reference Center
Publisher:
Published: 1994*
Total Pages: 8
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexandra Fletcher (Museum curator)
Publisher: British Museum Research Public
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780861591978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A key publication on the British Museum's approach to the ethical issues surrounding the inclusion of human remains in museum collections and possible solutions to the dilemmas relating to their curation, storage, access management and display.
Author: David van Duuren
Publisher: Kit Pub
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication describes and discusses the collection of human remains kept in Amsterdam’s Tropenmuseum. It is based on an inventory of the museum’s physical anthropological collection, collected between 1915 and 1964, and also refers to objects made from, or with, human remains, as well as to anthropological photographs, field notes and other archival sources. The idea behind this Bulletin is to contribute to the debate on the significance of physical anthropological collections kept in museums around the world, using the Tropenmuseum collection as a case in point. Why did the collections develop? What was their significance and what is their significance today? Who is the rightful owner? Who has, or should have, the authority to make decisions regarding the future of these collections, including where they should end up? For the Tropenmuseum, these are questions of great relevance, especially to the relationship between cultural and physical anthropology, and can be answered in a dialogue between various stakeholders.
Author: Samuel J. Redman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016-03-14
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0674969731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Smithsonian Book of the Year A Nature Book of the Year “Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.” —Smithsonian In 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory. Seeking evidence to support new theories of racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. As the study of these discoveries discredited racial theory, new ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropology displaced race as the main motive for building bone rooms. Today, as a new generation seeks to learn about the indigenous past, momentum is building to return objects of spiritual significance to native peoples. “A beautifully written, meticulously documented analysis of [this] little-known history.” —Brian Fagan, Current World Archeology “How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? Bone Rooms chases answers...through shifting ideas about race, anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical standards for the collection and display of human dead.” —Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors “Details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history, anthropological, and medical museums...Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind [these debates]...pitting the prickly Aleš Hrdlička at the Smithsonian...against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History.” —David Hurst Thomas, Nature