Re-think, Re-claim and Re-do: Unsettled Heritage Migration

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reimagining Repatriation: Providing Frameworks for Inclusive Cultural Restitution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The recent concern in Indigenous Archaeology is whether Heritage objects should be allowed to live and breathe among their family. A study for, by and with the Indigenous community should be able to recreate the best place for the communities, while some communities claim that their ancestors are not a specimen nor belong to the musuem others claim that their ancestor's possessions should be preserved in their land. This paper discusses the whole point of repatration- for Indigenous communities to have the right to decide what happens to their belongings and ancestors. Using the dirt filling method and analysis to interpret the technique in the migration of artifacts outside the community. This paper aims to decolonize archaeological methods because the idea that everything must be preserved and curated is part of a colonial project.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Reimagining Repatriation: Providing Frameworks for Inclusive Cultural Restitution

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