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Repatriation, power relations and the politics of the past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tamara L. Bray*
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Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit MI 48202, USA. e-mail: TBRAY@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU
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Abstract

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Museums across the USA are busy carrying out their new obligations under NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. There is more to the mood than some change in how human remains are curated in archaeological and anthropological collections.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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