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The NAGPRA Decision‐Making Process and Praxis: A Case Study of the New Mexico State University Museum

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examined the decision‐making process and practice of a small academic museum as it strived to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using the New Mexico State University Museum as a case study, it explores key questions related to NAGPRA compliance: How did the NMSU Museum determine that ...
Fumi Arakawa, Stanley Berryman
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Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Guagnin M   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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Mobilising cultural heritage for locally owned adaptation. [PDF]

open access: yesNPJ Clim Action
Donovan K   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tracing Taonga Trajectories: A Methodological Framework for Indigenous Heritage Mapping

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2026.
Rangitāhua is a tupuna to Ngāti Kuri and represents the iwi's geographic and ancestral connection to the Pacific. Despite this millennium‐long ancestral tie, Ngāti Kuri's access to Rangitāhua has been severed for two centuries. Meanwhile, many European expeditions visited the islands, extracting and distributing natural history taonga across ...
Marina Ferrari de Aquino Klemm   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preserving coastal environments requires an integrated natural and cultural resources management approach. [PDF]

open access: yesPNAS Nexus
Mehta JM   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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