Proactive Repatriation and Justice-Seeking for Ancestors in Edinburgh University's "Skull Room"
Edinburgh University’s Anatomical Museum’s “Skull Room” holds the cranial remains of nearly 1800 individuals, stolen by phrenologists, anatomists and graduate students in the 19th and 20th centuries. This lecture reflects on a collaborative project of reparative justice that sought to reconnect Firs...
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| description | Edinburgh University’s Anatomical Museum’s “Skull Room” holds the cranial remains of nearly 1800 individuals, stolen by phrenologists, anatomists and graduate students in the 19th and 20th centuries. This lecture reflects on a collaborative project of reparative justice that sought to reconnect First Nations and Inuit ancestors to their living descendants. It explores the importance of proactive repatriation and knowledge-sharing with descendant communities, the challenges of working with incomplete provenance, and the responsibilities inherent in bearing witness to colonial collections by researchers and academic institutions. |
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| spelling | ftnmscotlanddc:oai:hyku:3efbeeb7-634b-41c3-8f1f-6bb6e9cfd3db 2025-01-16T21:54:28+00:00 Proactive Repatriation and Justice-Seeking for Ancestors in Edinburgh University's "Skull Room" Anderson, Nicole https://fellows.socantscot.org/events/details/?id=aebe727b-7261-ef11-bfe4-6045bdfc3052 unknown Society of Antiquaries Scotland Inuit reparative justice human remains First Nations colonial histories provenance repatriation cranial remains museum collections Conference Item ftnmscotlanddc 2024-11-12T00:36:52Z Edinburgh University’s Anatomical Museum’s “Skull Room” holds the cranial remains of nearly 1800 individuals, stolen by phrenologists, anatomists and graduate students in the 19th and 20th centuries. This lecture reflects on a collaborative project of reparative justice that sought to reconnect First Nations and Inuit ancestors to their living descendants. It explores the importance of proactive repatriation and knowledge-sharing with descendant communities, the challenges of working with incomplete provenance, and the responsibilities inherent in bearing witness to colonial collections by researchers and academic institutions. Conference Object First Nations inuit National Museums Scotland (NMS) Research Repository |
| spellingShingle | Inuit reparative justice human remains First Nations colonial histories provenance repatriation cranial remains museum collections Anderson, Nicole Proactive Repatriation and Justice-Seeking for Ancestors in Edinburgh University's "Skull Room" |
| title | Proactive Repatriation and Justice-Seeking for Ancestors in Edinburgh University's "Skull Room" |
| title_full | Proactive Repatriation and Justice-Seeking for Ancestors in Edinburgh University's "Skull Room" |
| title_fullStr | Proactive Repatriation and Justice-Seeking for Ancestors in Edinburgh University's "Skull Room" |
| title_full_unstemmed | Proactive Repatriation and Justice-Seeking for Ancestors in Edinburgh University's "Skull Room" |
| title_short | Proactive Repatriation and Justice-Seeking for Ancestors in Edinburgh University's "Skull Room" |
| title_sort | proactive repatriation and justice-seeking for ancestors in edinburgh university's "skull room" |
| topic | Inuit reparative justice human remains First Nations colonial histories provenance repatriation cranial remains museum collections |
| topic_facet | Inuit reparative justice human remains First Nations colonial histories provenance repatriation cranial remains museum collections |
| url | https://fellows.socantscot.org/events/details/?id=aebe727b-7261-ef11-bfe4-6045bdfc3052 |