Curating Human Remains: Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom

The difficult and sensitive issue of how museums and other repositories should treat human remains in their possession is here addressed through a number of important case studies.

How to care for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843838060
• ISBN13: 9781843838067
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"