Museum Studies Program, U-M Rackham Graduate School

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A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection: Salvage Anthropology and U.S. Museums

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Samuel J. Redman presents – A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection: Salvage Anthropology and U.S. Museums (March 2019)

This presentation explores salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture objects into museums.  As a result, questions have arisen for museums such as what to do with stolen artifacts, stolen knowledge, and...