Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits by Chip Colwell

It shows how the law has become an imperfect but necessary tool to resolve the collision of worldviews between scientists and Native Americans-to decide the nature of the sacred and the destiny of souls. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits is the first popular book to illuminate the profound impacts of the repatriation crusade. This book was released on with total page 357 pages. These stories reveal the labyrinthine process that involves not merely obeying the law, but negotiating the thin lines between identity and morality, spirituality and politics. Download or read book Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits written by Chip Colwell and published by University of Chicago Press. Told as a personal journey to understand how repatriation has transformed both museums and tribes, this book follows the trail of four objects as they were created, collected, and then returned to their sources.

Written by a leading museum curator, Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits is an unflinching insider view of these tangled debates. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native Americas Culture by Chip Colwell ( 64 ) 23.46 39.

Many still question how to balance the religious freedoms of Native Americans with the freedoms of American scientists, and the arguments continue on about whether the emptying of museum shelves elevates human rights or destroys humanity’s common heritage. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native Americas Culture Hardcover Illustrated, Maby Chip Colwell (Author) 71 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 24.32 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 40.42 3 Used from 61. This controversy has exploded in recent years as hundreds of tribes have used a landmark federal law to recover their looted heritage from more than one thousand museums across America. As senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Chip Colwell has navigated firsthand the questions of how to weigh the religious. Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?įive decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade against museums to reclaim their sacred objects and to rebury their kin.

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits by Chip Colwell