Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Author: Chip Colwell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2019-10-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022668444X


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"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


Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Chip Colwell
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"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. M
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: John Stephen Colwell
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-08 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Introduction -- Resistance: war gods -- Only after night fall -- Keepers of the sky -- Magic relief -- Tribal resolution -- All things will eat themselves up --
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Chip Colwell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-08 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A leading anthropologist “explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work” (Publishers Weekly
Grave Injustice
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Grave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriate
Decolonizing Museums
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Amy Lonetree
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role