Human Remains - Curation, Reburial and Repatriation

A practical and informative guide to caring for human remains in museums. Discusses key legal and ethical issues, how attitudes towards repatriation and reburial of remains have changed, and broader challenges inherent in holding human remains with global origins. Essential reading for advanced students in biological anthropology and bioarcheology.

List of contents

1. A history of human remains in museum and other collections; 2. Human remains and scientific research; 3. The legal aspects of human remains; 4. Ethical considerations for human remains; 5. Good practice in curating human remains; 6. Other belief systems and the care of human remains; 7. A history of repatriation; 8. Repatriation today; 9. The importance of provenance; 10. Reburial and the alternatives; 11. Where we go from here?

About the author

Margaret Clegg is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London and was formerly Head of the Human Remains Unit of the Natural History Museum, London. She is a leading expert on the issue of repatriation of human remains, and her research also focuses on the archaeological evidence for hominin cognition, and the evolution of modern human growth and development, including modern human morphological variation. She is a member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) and a variety of advisory panels, including the steering committee of the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England (APABE).

Summary

A practical and informative guide to caring for human remains in museums. Discusses key legal and ethical issues, how attitudes towards repatriation and reburial of remains have changed, and broader challenges inherent in holding human remains with global origins. Essential reading for advanced students in biological anthropology and bioarcheology.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Clegg, Margaret (University College London) Clegg, Clegg Margaret
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781107485433
• ISBN: 978-1-107-48543-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Cambridge Texts in Human Bioar; Cambridge Texts in Human Bioarchaeology and Osteoarchaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Archäologie, Anthropology, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Archaeology, Social and cultural anthropology, Human biology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Physical anthropology, Medical Anthropology