Articulating bones: an epilogue

Hallam, Elizabeth

doi:10.1177/1359183510382963

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“…Los osarios, por ejemplo, actúan como repositorios de huesos desde el siglo XIII. La cripta de los Capuchinos en Roma, la Capilla de los Huesos de Valletta en Malta y su homónima en Portugal exhiben huesos y cuerpos principalmente con el fin de representar lo efímero de la vida, o sea un memento mori (Hallam, 2010).…”

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Debates and political decisions on the exhibition of human remains in the Museum of La Plata

Sardi¹,

Reca²,

Pucciarelli³

2015

rev arg antrop biol

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RESUMEN Desde hace algunas décadas, el Museo de La Plata (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) ha recibido reclamos por parte de comunidades aborígenes que solicitan la restitución de restos humanos, así como su retiro de las salas de exhibición. Conjuntamente con la aparición de normativas que reconocen derechos en los pueblos originarios y el debate de la propia comunidad académica, se ha desarrollado en los últimos años una política integral en relación con el manejo de restos humanos dentro de la institución. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar los acontecimientos, debates y decisiones acerca de la modalidad de exhibición de restos humanos PALABRAS CLAVE política; comunidades aborígenes; visitantes; museo en el Museo de La Plata. El principal cambio se produjo en 2006, cuando se decidió retirar de exhibición las momias y partes esqueletarias de poblaciones aborígenes de América y, paralelamente, la elaboración de mensajes a los visitantes según estas decisiones políticas. El nuevo guión de la exposición gira en torno a la evolución humana, contemplando la inclusión de un sector especialmente dedicado a la reflexión sobre el significado de prácticas y representaciones sobre la muerte y los muertos, el valor del estudio científico sobre este tipo de evidencias y los derechos de las comunidades sobre sus muertos. Rev Arg Antrop Biol 17(2):00-00, 2015.KEY WORDS policies; aboriginal communities; visitors; museum ABSTRACT Since some decades, aboriginal communities have been demanding to the Museo de La Plata that human remains be restored to the communities they belong to and removed from public exhibition. Regulations that recognize the rights of indigenous people, together with debates within the academic community, have contributed to the development of institutional policies on the treatment and care of human remains. The goal of this work is to present the events, debates and decisions related to the modes of exhibition of human remains in the Museum de La Plata. The main shift occurred in 2006 when it was decided that all mummies and skeletal parts belonging to American aborigines must be removed from exhibition. It was also considered necessary that the institution put up messages conveying these political decisions to visitors. The curation of the new exhibition is based on human evolution and includes a sector devoted to reflection on the meaning of the practices and representations about death and the dead, the scientific value of the study of human remains, and the rights of the communities to claim bodies. Rev Arg Antrop Biol 17(2):00-00, 2015.Desde el año 2011, se ha desarrollado anualmente en Argentina el Taller En la actualidad, una mirada integral acerca del manejo y administración de restos humanos atiende tanto a la conservación, documentación, exhibición y restitución de colecciones e involucra gran cantidad de actores entre los que se su-

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“…Así, éstos operan como entidades relacionales (Hallam, 2010), es decir, que ya no pueden ser considerados solamente para la observación anatómica y evolutiva, sino que además forman parte de vínculos sociales y políticos dinámicos y por ende, cambiantes en el tiempo.…”

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Debates and political decisions on the exhibition of human remains in the Museum of La Plata

Sardi¹,

Reca²,

Pucciarelli³

2015

rev arg antrop biol

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“…We have seen that cremated remains have social lives of their own, embedded in material practices and entangled in social relationships (Hallam, 2010). They evoke dynamical bonds between the living and the dead.…”

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The ambiguity of human ashes: Exploring encounters with cremated remains in the Netherlands

Mathijssen

2016

Death Studies

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“…In a series of seminars and articles, these theorists have convincingly argued that the impact and effect of human bones upon living persons is "not confined to questions about the representation of the past, or indeed their 'symbolic efficacy' … but also has something to do with their 'emotive materiality' as human substances and their 'affective presence' as dead persons" (Fontein 2010, 431;see also Filippucci 2004;Filippucci et al 2012;Fontein 2011;Hallam 2010;Harries 2010). This article will explore the relevance of these categories of emotive materiality and affective presence for the human remains encountered in Reaksmei Songha.…”

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The Dead in the Land: Encounters with Bodies, Bones, and Ghosts in Northwestern Cambodia

Arensen¹

2017

J of Asian Stud

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This article explores one Cambodian village's engagement with the remains of the dead encountered during postwar resettlement. For Khmer Buddhists, the correct material transformation of the bodies of the dead is critical, but these processes were often disrupted in Cambodia's recent troubled past. This article describes the subsequent ramifications of these interrupted processes for both the living and the dead in Reaksmei Songha village in northwestern Battambang. Various residents had encountered the bones of the war dead, and some described sightings of ghosts. Kinship played a vital role in villagers’ responses to unearthed bones. However, residents tended to downplay the impact of these remains and their ghostly counterparts, possibly because of their own affective identification with the plight of the dead.

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Articulating bones: an epilogue

Cited by 54 publications

References 46 publications

Debates and political decisions on the exhibition of human remains in the Museum of La Plata

Debates and political decisions on the exhibition of human remains in the Museum of La Plata

The ambiguity of human ashes: Exploring encounters with cremated remains in the Netherlands

The Dead in the Land: Encounters with Bodies, Bones, and Ghosts in Northwestern Cambodia

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