Repatriation, Science and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367701918 / Twarda / 2023 / 328 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Professor Cressida Fforde is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University (ANU).

 

Dr Hilary Howes is an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow based in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University (ANU).

 

Dr Gareth Knapman is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, ANU and is the post-doctoral researcher on the ARC-funded project: Profit and Loss: investigating the global commercial trade in Indigenous human remains, today and in the past.

 

Lyndon Ormond-Parker (Alyawarr) is a Researcher with the Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia. He is supported by ARC Discovery Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award (IN220100008).  His research projects include repatriation of cultural heritage, information and communications technology, Aboriginal remote community broadcasting and the digital preservation of audio-visual archives and other cultural heritage collections.