Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 07 October 2019

"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 08 March 2017

Introduction -- Resistance: war gods -- Only after night fall -- Keepers of the sky -- Magic relief -- Tribal resolution -- All things will eat themselves up -- This

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 08 March 2017

A leading anthropologist “explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work” (Publishers Weekly). Who own the objects that connect us to history?

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 36,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

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

• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums,

• Publisher : Rowman Altamira
• File Size : 30,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

During the twentieth century, American Indians across North America organized protests against traditional museum treatment of Native materials and the Native community. In response, museums began to change their methods.

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 October 2021

A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of ÒvanishingÓ Indigenous peoples through dispossession of the very communities it was meant to protect. In the

• Publisher : Cassell
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 March 2020

"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 32,9 Mb
• Release Date : 14 March 2016

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 “How did our museums become great

• Publisher : Basic Books
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 05 April 2001

The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: