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Repatriation, Science, and Identity explores the entanglement of race, history, identity and ethics inherent in the application of scientific techniques to determine the provenance of Indigenous Ancestral Remains in repatriation claims and processes.
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1. Science, race, identity and repatriation - key issues; 2. Indigenous Bodies Are Not Your Property: Restoring the Authority of Indigenous Consent Restores Justice; 3. Surveying Craniometry; 4. Craniometry and Indigenous Repatriation; 5. The return of Ancestral Hawaiian Remains Housed at the Duckworth Laboratory, The University of Cambridge; 6. Explanations of failure: Identifying racial logic, scientific authority, and notions of authenticity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 7. The primary characteristic of race: a history of hair samples from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as sites of scientific analysis; 8. Blood and the second wave of collecting; 9. "We are taking it back to our homeland; We are free to move on": repatriation of blood samples to the Galiwin'ku Community; 10. Ancestors Now: DNA technologies, identity and the repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains; 11. Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Repatriation and the Biopolitics of DNA
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Professor Cressida Fforde is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University (ANU). She has undertaken scholarly and applied research in repatriation since the early 1990s and has been a founding member of the Return Reconcile Renew initiative since 2013 (www.returnreconcilerenew.info).
Dr Hilary Howes is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow based in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at ANU. Her research to date addresses the German-speaking tradition within anthropology and archaeology, focusing on Austrian, German, Russian and Swiss collectors and collecting in Australia and the Pacific region.
Dr Gareth Knapman is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at ANU. Dr Knapman previously worked as a curator and repatriation officer at Museum Victoria's Indigenous Cultures Department. He has written extensively on museum collections and collecting and has made significant contributions to Australian Aboriginal history.
Associate Professor Lyndon Ormond-Parker (Alyawarr) is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow (IN220100008) in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at ANU. He is also a Principal Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at RMIT University (CE200100005).
