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Reckoning with the dead : the Larsen Bay repatriation and the Smithsonian Institution
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- Creator
- edited by Tamara L. Bray and Thomas W. Killion ; [foreword by William W. Fitzhugh]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1994]
- ©1994
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781560983651, 1560983655
- OCLC
- ocm29877762
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Looking toward Larsen Bay : evolving attitudes at the Smithsonian Institution / Thomas W. Killion and Tamara L. Bray -- Scientific policy and public interest : perspectives on the Larsen Bay repatriation case / Donald J. Ortner -- Qikertarmiut and the scientist : fifty years of clashing world views / Gordon L. Pullar -- Most peculiar man : the life and times pf Aleš Hrdlička / Stephen Loring and Miroslav Prokopec -- Uyak site in prehistory / Don E. Dumond -- Red, black, and blue : context and mortuary data at Larsen Bay, Kodiak Island / Stuart Speaker -- Teeth and prehistory on Kodiak island / G. Richard Scott -- Cannibalism or complex mortuary behavior? An analysis of patterned variability in the treatment of human remains from the Kachemak tradition of Kodiak Island / James J. K. Simon and Amy F. Steffian -- Cannibalism and curated skulls : bone ritualism on Kodiak Island / Javier Urcid -- Continuity and function in the ceremonial material culture of the Konaig Eskimo / Christopher Donta -- Still a big story : the prehistory of Kodiak Island / Donald W. Clark -- Concept of cultural affiliation and its legal significane in the Larsen Bay repatriation / Tamata L. Bray and Lauryn Guttenplan Grant -- Larsen Bay repatriation case and common errors of anthropologists / Henry J. Sockbeson -- Sensitivities and practical considerations in the return of human remains / Carol Roetzel Butler -- Repatriation at the National Museum of Natural History : present and future / Melinda A. Zeder -- Relationships, affiliations, recriminations, and lessons learned : comments on the Larsen Bay repatriation case / Lynne Goldstein -- Do the right thing / Randall H. McGuire -- Repatriation must heal old wounds / Rick Hill
Subjects
- Smithsonian Institution -- History.
- Koniagmiut Eskimos -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.
- Freedom of religion -- United States.
- Koniagmiut Eskimos -- Civil rights.
- Koniagmiut Eskimos -- Funeral customs and rites.
- Human remains (Archaeology) -- Alaska -- Larsen Bay (Kodiak Island).
- Archaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects.