From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying their dead in spaces that received few protections.
- Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
Presents are about giving, receiving and reciprocating, and how this cycle strengthens relationships.
Proposed legislation would identify and protect African American cemeteries. But it wouldn’t cover the remains of thousands of Black people in museum collections.
An anthropologist who’s researched the dispossession of Native Americans and their enduring connections to ancestral places sees the value in asking ‘whose land are you on?’
Es una mentira reconfortante creer que, una vez que una pieza pasa a formar parte de la colección de un museo, está segura para la eternidad. Los museos se enfrentan a muchos peligros en su lucha por la conservación. La falta de presupuesto es uno de los principales.
It’s a comforting falsehood that once an artifact joins a museum’s collection, it’s safe for eternity. Museums face many foes in the fight to preserve – a lack of funds might be the biggest.
Peut-on tout faire au nom de la science et de la connaissance ? Le cas d’une momie de jeune enfant soulève, enfin, des questions éthiques au sein de la communauté des archéologues.
Are DNA samples today’s version of the human skeletons that hung in 20th-century natural history museums? They can provide genetic revelations about our species’ history – but at an ethical price.
An anthropologist of the American West argues that protecting nature and our cultural heritage are good for business but few recognize how they are threatened by ‘jobs-creating’ oil pipelines.
What sacred sites have been damaged by The North Dakota Access Pipeline? We can’t really know for certain – and our legal system is partly to blame.
An anthropologist argues for new ways to value sacred landscapes.
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