TY - CHAP
T1 - Repatriating Human Remains
T2 - Searching for an Acceptable Ethics
AU - DICKERSON, Adam
AU - Ceeney, Erika
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Requests for the repatriation of human remains raise a number of perplexing ethical issues for cultural heritage institutions. The ethics of repatriation is complex, because, as Scarre (J Appl Philos 20:237-249, 2003) points out, it involves a four-way relationship between (1) cultural heritage professionals and institutions, (2) ‘the public’, (3) individuals or communities claiming close cultural and/or kinship ties with the dead and (4) the dead themselves. In this chapter, we examine the key ethical issues raised by this complex relationship and evaluate what they might mean for cultural heritage practice and policy.
AB - Requests for the repatriation of human remains raise a number of perplexing ethical issues for cultural heritage institutions. The ethics of repatriation is complex, because, as Scarre (J Appl Philos 20:237-249, 2003) points out, it involves a four-way relationship between (1) cultural heritage professionals and institutions, (2) ‘the public’, (3) individuals or communities claiming close cultural and/or kinship ties with the dead and (4) the dead themselves. In this chapter, we examine the key ethical issues raised by this complex relationship and evaluate what they might mean for cultural heritage practice and policy.
KW - repatriation
KW - human remains
KW - Cultural Heritage
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84944595912&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/repatriating-human-remains-searching-acceptable-ethics
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4939-1649-8_6
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4939-1649-8_6
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781493916481
T3 - The Ethics of Cultural Heritage
SP - 89
EP - 104
BT - The Ethics of Cultural Heritage
A2 - Ireland, Tracy
A2 - Schofield, John
PB - Springer
CY - United States
ER -