Margaret Clegg

Human Remains

Curation, Reburial and Repatriation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Highlights the importance of best practice in dealing with human remains, and discusses the key ethical and legal issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781107098381
• ISBN-10: 1107098386
• Artikelnr.: 57749711

Autorenporträt

Margaret Clegg is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London and was formerly Head of the Human Remains Unit of the Natural History Museum, London. She is a leading expert on the issue of repatriation of human remains, and her research also focuses on the archaeological evidence for hominin cognition, and the evolution of modern human growth and development, including modern human morphological variation. She is a member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) and a variety of advisory panels, including the steering committee of the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England (APABE).

Inhaltsangabe

1. A history of human remains in museum and other collections
2. Human remains and scientific research
3. The legal aspects of human remains
4. Ethical considerations for human remains
5. Good practice in curating human remains
6. Other belief systems and the care of human remains
7. A history of repatriation
8. Repatriation today
9. The importance of provenance
10. Reburial and the alternatives
11. Where we go from here?