Her poem I’ve Come to Take You Home was written into French law. It deals with the repatriation of the remains of Sarah Baartman.
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What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which provides valuable insights into how our ancestors adapted to their environment.
Language shapes power and words like restitution, unlike repatriation, speak directly to justice when it comes to returning cultural heritage.
The uneasy afterlife of human remains.
Researchers have discovered a second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Chester County, Pa.
Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of those who may have died traumatically.
Even with the best of intentions, restitution is not a fast process.
A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.
A collection of skulls and shrunken heads has been removed from a leading auction site, but the trade in human remains is unregulated and ongoing.
Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist hierarchies but also diversity in the early United States.
Colorado’s governor signed two new bills enforcing stricter requirements for the state’s funeral homes and staff after cases of mishandling human remains.
Two scholars who study death rituals explain that the corpse is considered spiritually polluting in many religious traditions, while the Moon holds a sacred place.
Forensic anthropologists are specialized scientists who analyze the skeletal remains of the recently deceased to help authorities figure out who the person was and what happened to them.
Hopefully more curators and custodians of repositories of human skeletal remains will attempt to redress some of the wrongs of the past.
Burial land is running low in certain parts of the world. It’s about time we started to consider the environmental cost of our final resting place.
All that remains of the political icon is a tooth, but it represents much more than just a human trophy.
The proposed National Resting Place in Canberra will be a vital step towards a more complete telling of this nation’s story.
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 expert on forensic science explains the critical role of coroners and pathologists in the COVID-19 crisis, as many cities struggle to manage the soaring number of dead bodies.
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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PhD Candidate in History, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Senior Professor of History, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Clemson University
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Adjunct Lecturer in Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Doctoral Student in Anthropology, American University
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Murdoch University