United States: Science, Property, And Kinship In Repatriation Debates

United States: Science, Property, And Kinship In Repatriation Debates Stuart Kirsch, 2011   A striking feature of debates concerning the disposition of Native American human remains is their invocation of the conventional domains of science, property, and kinship. Strong political claims about repatriation tend to assert the primacy of one domain over the others. Yet in contemporary North American social contexts, these domains have heterarchical relations in which no single perspective...

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