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Ethics and the Reburial Controversy
American Antiquity, 1990 The reburial issue is often characterized as a problem in ethics. This paper points out that ethics are a cultural construct, and, as such, what is sometimes referred to as an ethical conflict is better understood as a conflict in cultural values. With this in mind, we consider mechanisms for the resolution of cultural conflict with particular focus on
Lynne Goldstein, Keith Kintigh
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Custodians of Controversy: Navigating Stewardship Challenges With Non-Consensual Anatomized Human Skeletonized Individuals in South Africa. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT South Africa, like many countries, holds collections of human skeletonized individuals historically acquired through anatomical dissection programs. This paper examines non‐consensual anatomized and unclaimed (NCAU) state‐directed skeletonized individuals, whose presence in collections pose significant legal, ethical, and professional ...
Alblas A, Gibbon VE.
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The Sanctity of Burial: Pagan Views, Ancient and Modern [PDF]
Archaeologists worldwide increasingly engage with calls from indigenous communities for the repatriation and reburial of ancestral remains. In this paper, we present findings from the Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites Project: Contemporary Pagan ...
Blain, Jenny, Wallis, Robert
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On Making Descendant Communities: Three Case Studies From Historical Bioarchaeology. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Bioarchaeologists, museums and universities, journal editorial boards, and academic professional organizations are working toward ethical engagements with human remains, with a focus on descendant community engagement. This article reexamines past and present bioarchaeological descendant community engagement to consider how “descendant ...
Warner-Smith AL, Hosek LR, Ellis MAB.
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Evaluation of Morphological and Osteometric Sex Estimation on Historical Skeletal Material of Subadult Individuals From Germany. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives While sex estimation based on morphological features of the adult skeleton is considered reliable, it proves to be challenging, especially in skeletons of subadults. The purpose of this study is to investigate the accuracy of sex estimation of the methods described below and errors within the observer and between observers ...
Behrendt CL +5 more
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The Ritual of Reburial and the System of Reburial during the Tang Era [PDF]
, 2013 Reburial (gaizang 改葬) here means the removal of a previously constructed tomb to another location. In the Tang era, removal of a coffin that had been temporarily buried in one place for any of a variety of reasons and transfer to an ancestral cemetery ...
江川, 式部
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Exhumations, reburials and history making in post-apartheid South Africa. [PDF]
, 2018 Magister Artium - MAThis mini-thesis, Exhumation, Reburial and History Making in South Africa , is concerned with an analysis of the practices of exhumation and reburial through discussing the case studies of the Iron-Age archaeological site of ...
Karating, Robin-lea
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2018 Based upon fieldwork conducted in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, this paper explores the way in which the disposition, display and commemoration of the dead create meaning for communities of the living. Using two theoretical frames, “the work
Natalie C. Polzer
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Archaeology, Identity, and the Right to Culture: Anthropological perspectives on repatriation
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2008 The debatc concerning repatriation and reburial is attracting increasing attention in Sweden. While most archaeologists today understand the importancc of repatriation and the arguments underlying the claim, the process is not completely unproblematic ...
Liv Nilsson Stutz
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Hearts, 2022 Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) implants are rising in an older, more co-morbid population. The prevalence of CIED infection ranges from 1–4%. Whilst complete extraction of all transvenous hardware is recommended for infected, eroded, or pre-
Jennifer Llewellyn +4 more
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