Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The great laboratory of humanity : collection, patrimony and the repatriation of human remains
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
CLEUP
Place
Date
2020
Physical Description
298 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9788854951174
885495117X
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Edition/State/Version
First edition
Subject Category
Content
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.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Koiwi; Human remains (Archaeology)--Moral and ethical aspects; Museum techniques--Philosophy]
NB: includes photographs and drawings of toi moko/upoko tuhi on p.150-153. Parte delle relazioni presentate alla Conferenza tenuta a Padova nel 2016. Auckland Museum Library cited (Augustus Hamilton Papers, Robley to Hamilton correspondence) for chapter "Horatio Gordon Robley and his collection of preserved Maori heads" by Roger Blackley.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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