"Who knows the power of his bones": Reburial redux

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 925, Issue , 2000, Pages 79-119

  Silverman, Sydel ^a,b  

^a Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology, ethics; Archaeology, ethics; Australian Aboriginal reburials; Bones, ancestral; Delaware (Indian) bones, repatriation of; Ellis Island (New York), reburial at; Indigenous peoples; Mindil Beach (Australia), reburial at; Mortuary customs; NAGPRA; Native American reburials; Politics of identity; Politics of the past; Reburial; Repatriation of human remains

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARCHEOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; BONE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; INHERITANCE; JUSTICE; POLITICS; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RELIGION; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034521112     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb05586.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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