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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

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Description for Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits, an unflinching insider account by a leading curator who has spent years learning how to balance these controversial considerations. Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226298993
SKU
9780226298993
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About Chip Colwell
Chip Colwell is the senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. His work has been highlighted in such venues as the New York Times, Denver Post, Huffington Post, and C-SPAN, and his books include Living Histories: Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology and Inheriting the Past: The Making of Arthur C. Parker and Indigenous Archaeology. ... Read more

Reviews for Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
In this beautifully written meditation on the vexed relationship between museums and Native American communities, Colwell reveals as never before the human dimensions of our recent struggles over repatriation. Important, necessary reading for all those who grapple with the essential question of how best to respect and honor the past.
Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture


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