Ethical perspectives and cultural differences regarding repatriation and management of human skeletal remains : Rapa Nui case study

• Main Author: Gustafsson, Olivia
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia 2020
• Subjects: Repatriation; ethics; Indigenous; Rapa Nui; and post-colonialism; Repatriering; etik; Ursprungsbefolkning; Rapa Nui och post-kolonialism; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Pacific; Rapa; Sámi
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-423955

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is an island in the Pacific Ocean which has been colonised over a long period of time. Colonisers have exploited the island through looting and trading Rapanui (the Indigenous people) human skeletal remains. Around ninety percent of the stolen Rapanui human skeletal remains...