| Contents |
Part I. The Science of Human Remains -- Paleoindians: The Understudied Individuals -- North American Mummies: Lost Opportunities -- Biological Relationships: Missing Links -- Reconstructing the Past: Correcting Fallacies -- Part II. Human Remains and the Law -- NAGPRA and Beyond: Repatriation and Related Laws in the United States -- Other Repatriation Movements in the United States -- Part III. A Critique of the Repatriation Movement -- Reburial, Religion, and Race -- Oral Tradition as Evidence for Repatriation -- Indian Treatment of the Human Body -- Repatriation and the End of Scientific Freedom |
| Abstract |
"Engaging a current controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, this volume takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds, offering scientific and legal perspectives on the ways repatriation laws impact research"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Weiss, Elizabeth, Repatriation and erasing the past Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2020. 9781683401858 |
| LCCN | 2020015453 |
| ISBN | 9781683401575 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1683401573 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
