Description
The treatment of human remains, whether they are contained in museum collections, connected with royalty or discovered during the course of building or other works, gives rise to a host of moral, ethical, religious and legal issues.
Should all remains be treated in the same way? If not where are the boundaries? If museums use human remains, are the boundaries the same for all uses (exhibition, teaching and scientific research)? Do we treat cultures that have disappeared (e.g. the Sumerians or ancient Egyptians) differently from living cultures and why do museums take the approach they do? How should the rights of indigenous peoples to the remains of their ancestors be properly respected?
230 pages | ISBN 9781903987377
Contents
| Norman Palmer QC | Relinquishment, Remembrance and Repose: Models for the Domicile of Human Remains |
| Cressida Fforde, Lyndon Ormond-Parker and Paul Turnbull | Repatriation Research: Archives and the Recovery of History and Heritage |
| Kevin Chamberlain | We Need to Lay Our Ancestors to Rest: the Repatriation of Indigenous Human Remains and the Human Rights Act |
| Tom Lewis | Human Remains as Artistic Expression and the Common Law Offence of Outraging Public Decency: ‘Human Earrings’, Human Rights and R. v. Gibson revisited |
| Carolyn Browne | Licensing Public Display: A Perspective from the Regulator |
| Margaret Clegg and Sarah Long | The Natural History Museum and Human Remains |
| Jelena Bekvalac | The Diplay of Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains in Museums |
| Joseph Elders | Burial Law and Archaeology in the Church of England’s Jurisdiction |
| Richard Harwood QC | Development of Land and Human Remains |
| Carolyn Shelbourn | Remains, Research and Respect: Some Reflections on Burial Archaeology and the Current Law and Policy Relating to Treatment of the ‘Anciently Dead’ |
| Mathilde Roellinger | The French Experience of Repatriation of Human Remains |
| Nathalie Gates | The Infamous William Corder: A Family Divided |
| Harry Martin | Case Note on Richard III: (The Queen on Application of Plantaget Alliance Ltd) v. Secretary of State for Justice |
| Kevin Chamberlain | The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act |
| Alexander Herman | Kennewick Man, Statutory Interpretation and the First North Americans |
| Appendix I | Natural History Museum Human Remains Policy |
| Appendix II | Policy for the Care of Human Remains in Museum of London Collections |
| Appendix III | Bitish Museum Policy: Human Remains in the Collection |
| Appendix IV | The University of Manchester – the Manchester Museum: Policy for the Care and Use of Human Remains |
| Appendix V | Applications to the Home Office to Exhume Remains for Reburial |
| Appendix VI | Material on Anne de Mowbray |
| Appendix VII | The Reasoning of the Court of Appeal in Rudewicz, R (on the application of) v. Secretary of State for Justice |
| Appendix VIII | Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act |
| Appendix IX | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 |
| Appendix X | Museums (Aborginal Remains) Act 1984 |
