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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act"”.
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Improving Cal NAGPRA: Honoring Native American Rights
<p>The California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (Cal NAGPRA) became state law in 2001. Its purpose was to create a process whereby California tribes could seek to repatriate human remains and objects from their cultural heritage from museums and custodial institutions. Cal …
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Scientific racism, mass collecting, and NAGPRA : a study of the transformation of relationships between museums, anthropology, and the public from the late 19th century to the 21st century.
Humankind has collected materials and remains for centuries as a way to depict social status, educate, and fascinate. The relationships between anthropologists and museums in the late 19th and early 20th century set the foundation for both disciplines to make their mark in academia and public …
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Modern Approaches to NAGPRA
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act compliance methodologies and how institutions overcame the challenges inherent in the act. The research focused on how professionals performing repatriations perceived their efforts and …
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Epigenetic Traits, Computerized Tomography And Native American Identity
… in trait expressions found on the human skull, and largely disregarded. It is now known many of these traits are heritable and potentially define population affinity. Native American skeletal collections have been diminishing after the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act …
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Politics of Repatriation: Formalizing Indigenous Cultural Property Rights
This project will be an empirical study into repatriation as a political practice. This theoretically-oriented project investigates how institutions and cultural values mediate changes in the governance of repatriation policy, specifically its formalization and rescaling in the United States. I …