Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture / Chip Co...
Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture / Chip Co...
Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture / Chip Colwell.
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2017/5594
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Language
English
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Physical content
348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- Resistance: war gods -- Only after night fall -- Keepers of the sky -- Magic relief -- Tribal resolution -- All things will eat themselves up -- This far away -- Regret: a scalp from Sand Creek -- I have come to kill Indians -- The Bones Bill -- We are going back home -- Indian troph...
Publication information
Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2017.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"-...
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Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture / Chip Colwell.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2017/5594
Record Identifier
74VKVgyl0R5A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyl0R5A
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ISBN
022629899X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226298993 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
973.0497
MMS ID
991024148787202626
