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Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture
- Title
- Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture / Chip Colwell.
- Author
- Colwell, Chip (John Stephen), 1975-
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 348 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"--Provided by the publisher.
- Subjects
- Anthropological ethics
- Anthropological museums and collections
- Museums and Indians
- Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects
- Anthropological ethics > United States
- Anthropological museums and collections > United States
- Museums and Indians > United States
- Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
- Indians of North America > Antiquities
- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (United States)
- Cultural property > Repatriation > United States
- United States
- Human remains (Archaeology) > Repatriation > United States
- Indians of North America > Material culture > United States
- United States Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-331) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Resistance : war gods. Only after night fall ; Keepers of the sky ; Magic relief ; Tribal resolution ; All things will eat themselves up ; This far away -- Regret : a scalp from Sand Creek. I have come to kill Indians ; The Bones Bill ; We are going back home ; Indian trophies ; AC. 35B ; A wound of the soul -- Reluctance : killer whale flotilla robe. Masterless things ; Chief Shakes ; Johnson v. Chilkat Indian Village ; Last stand ; The weight was heavy ; Our culture is not dying -- Respect : Calusa skulls. The hardest cases ; Long since completely disappeared ; Unidentifiable ; Their place of understanding ; Timeless limbo ; Before we just gave up -- Conclusion -- A note on the terms American Indian, Native American, etc.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3455
- ISBN
- 9780226298993
- 022629899X
- LCCN
- 2016036898
- OCLC
- 956957284
- Author
- Colwell, Chip (John Stephen), 1975- author.
- Title
- Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture / Chip Colwell.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-331) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3455