Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

by Chip Colwell

Book Overview

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits, an unflinching insider account by a leading curator who has spent years learning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022668444X
• ISBN13: 9780226684444
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"