The great laboratory of humanity : collection, patrimony and the repatriation of human remains

CLEUP

2020

9788854951174
885495117X

English

Bib record

First edition

Introduction / Maria Teresa Milicia -- Acknowledgments -- Museum temporalities and spaces / Jean-Loup Amselle
Part I. Collections and Patrimony: evidence-bodies, monument-bodies -- Overview of medical museology in Europe from 17th century Wunderkammer to early 20th century decline / Fabio Zampieri -- Medical museology and the anatomical collections at the University of Padua Medical School / Alberto Zanatta -- Giovanni Canestrini (1835-1900) and the strange case of the Petrarca's skull / Nicola Carrara -- Skulls, science and positivist symbolism / Silvano Montaldo -- The translation of remains of martyred patriots in Risorgimento Italy / Silvia Cavicchioli -- Processing human remains: the construction of political objects / Francesca Sbardella -- Namless skulls. The cemetery of the Fontanelle and Devotion to the Souls of Purgatory in Naples / Helga Sanita -- Head case: Horatio Gordon Robley and his collection of preserved Maori heads / Roger Blackley -- illustrations.
Part II. Repatriations: controversies and challenges -- The U.S. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA): successes, challenges and opportunities for global conversation / Kathleen S. Fine-Dare -- Contending for skulls: the tricky case of the "Cesare Lombroso" Museum / Maria Teresa Milicia -- The homecoming of Atai's remains / Adriano Favole, Emmanuel Kasarherou, Anna Paini -- The return of the Dead. Internal colonialism in the Netherlands / Fenneke Sysling -- The paradox of recognition in the repatriation of Australian Indigenous remains and sacred objects / Franca Tamisari -- Legally acquired? The moral and legal context of collecting Indigenous Australian human remains in Colonial Australia / Paul Turnbull -- Whose bones are they? Hominin fossils as a cultural heritage and biological archive of humankind / Claudio Tuniz -- The Code of Ethics for Museums and the Care of Collections of Human Remains. The Italian case of Lombroso Museum in Turin / Alberto Garlandini -- Restitutions and the feelings of guilt of the Western States / Giovanni Pinna -- about the contributors.

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