Record details

• ISBN: 1560983655 (paper : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9781560983651 (paper : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xiv, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
• Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Looking toward Larsen Bay : evolving attitudes at the Smithsonian Institution / Thomas W. Killion and Tamara L. Bray -- Scientific policy and public interest : perspectives on the Larsen Bay repatriation case / Donald J. Ortner -- Qikertarmiut and the scientist : fifty years of clashing world views / Gordon L. Pullar -- Most peculiar man : the life and times of Aleš Hrdlička / Stephen Loring and Miroslav Prokopec -- Uyak site in prehistory / Don E. Dumond -- Red, black, and blue : context and mortuary data at Larsen Bay, Kodiak Island / Stuart Speaker -- Teeth and prehistory on Kodiak island / G. Richard Scott -- Cannibalism or complex mortuary behavior? An analysis of patterned variability in the treatment of human remains from the Kachemak tradition of Kodiak Island / James J.K. Simon and Amy F. Steffian -- Cannibalism and curated skulls : bone ritualism on Kodiak Island / Javier Urcid -- Continuity and function in the ceremonial material culture of the Konaig Eskimo / Christopher Donta -- Still a big story : the prehistory of Kodiak Island / Donald W. Clark -- Concept of cultural affiliation and its legal significance in the Larsen Bay repatriation / Tamara L. Bray and Lauryn Guttenplan Grant -- Larsen Bay repatriation case and common errors of anthropologists / Henry J. Sockbeson -- Sensitivities and practical considerations in the return of human remains / Carol Roetzel Butler -- Repatriation at the National Museum of Natural History : present and future / Melinda A. Zeder -- Relationships, affiliations, recriminations, and lessons learned : comments on the Larsen Bay repatriation case / Lynne Goldstein -- Do the right thing / Randall H. McGuire -- Repatriation must heal old wounds / Rick Hill.

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Koniagmiut Eskimos > Antiquities > Collection and preservation.
Cultural property > Repatriation > United States.
Freedom of religion > United States.
Koniagmiut Eskimos > Civil rights.
Koniagmiut Eskimos > Funeral customs and rites.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Repatriation > Alaska > Larsen Bay (Kodiak Island)
Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Smithsonian Institution > History.