Contesting human remains in museum collections : the crisis of cultural authority /
An examination of the construction of contestation over human remains from a sociological perspective, this work advances an emerging area of academic research, setting the terms of debate, synthesizing disparate ideas, & making sense of a broader cultural focus on dead bodies in the contemporar...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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Series: | Routledge research in museum studies ;
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Online Access: | https://recursos.uloyola.es/login?url=https://accedys.uloyola.es:8443/accedix0/sitios/ebook.php?id=160643 |
Table of Contents:
- Transforming concerns about human remains into an issue
- Scientists contest repatriation
- The crisis of cultural authority
- The rise and impact of pagan claims-makers
- Explaining why human remains are a problem
- Covering up the mummies
- Concluding thoughts.
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