Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture

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Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture

Title remainder

inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture

Statement of responsibility

Chip Colwell

Title variation

Plundered skulls and stolen spirits

Title variation remainder

inside the fight to reclaim native Americas culture

Creator

• trueColwell, Chip, (John Stephen), 1975-

Author

• trueColwell, Chip, (John Stephen), 1975-

Subject

• Anthropological ethics -- United States
• trueAnthropological museums and collections
• Anthropological museums and collections -- United States
• trueAntiquities
• trueAntiquities‡xCollection and preservation
• trueArchaeology
• trueArchaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Archaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
• trueCultural property
• Cultural property -- Repatriation -- United States
• Human remains (Archaeology) -- Repatriation -- United States
• Indians of North America -- Antiquities
• Indians of North America -- Material culture -- United States
• Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Antiquities
• Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Material culture -- United States
• trueIndigenous peoples of North America -- Antiquities
• trueMaterial culture
• trueMuseums
• Museums and Indians -- United States
• trueUnited States.
• trueHuman remains (Archaeology)
• trueAnthropological ethics

Language

eng

Summary

"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"--Provided by the publisher

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Cataloging source

ICU/DLC

Dewey number

973.04/97

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E98.M34

LC item number

C65 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult