The repatriation of human remains - problem or opportunity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3402175
AutoresL Smith (0000-0002-8852-6976, Department of Archaeology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen78
Número300
Páginas404-413
Fecha de publicación2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00113043
OpenAlexW1952353352
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23
Referencias citadas22

The editor's question "who do human skeletons belong to?" (Antiquity78: 5) can be answered positively, but it must be answered in context. The question was prompted by reports from theWorking Group on Human Remainsestablished by the British government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in 2001 to review the current legal status of human remains held in all publicly funded museums and galleries, and to consider and review submissions on the issue of the return of non-UK human remains to their descendent communities (DCMS 2003: 1-8). In effect, the report was primarily concerned with human remains from Indigenous communities, using a definition which follows the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as "distinct cultural groups having a historical continuity with pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories" (DCMS 2003:7). Consequently, the report deals primarily with the Indigenous communities of Australia, New Zealand and North America

Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Declaration · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Government (linguistics · Human rights · Indigenous · Indigenous culture · Political science · Repatriation · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law