Ethical Issues of Bioarchaeology in New Zealand-Aotearoa: Relationships, Research, and Repatriation

Gilmore, Helen R.; Aranui, Amber; Halcrow, Siân E.

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“… 8 See Tayles and Halcrow 2011; Kakaliouras 2012; Watkins 2017; Gilmore, Aranui and Halcrow 2019; Squires, Errickson and Márquez-Grant 2019; Aranui 2020; Meloche, Spake and Nichols 2021. …”

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Moving beyond Weiss and Springer’sRepatriation and Erasing the Past:Indigenous values, relationships, and research

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This commentary debunks the poor scholarship in Repatriation and Erasing the Past by Elizabeth Weiss and James Springer. We show that modern bioarchaeological practice with Indigenous remains places ethics, partnership, and collaboration at the fore and that the authors’ misconstructed dichotomous fallacy between “objective science” and Indigenous knowledge and repatriation hinders the very argument they are espousing. We demonstrate that bioarchaeology, when conducted in collaboration with stakeholders, enriches research, with concepts and methodologies brought forward to address common questions, and builds a richer historical and archaeological context. As anthropologists, we need to acknowledge anti-Indigenous (and anti-Black) ideology and the insidious trauma and civil rights violations that have been afflicted and re-afflicted through Indigenous remains being illegally or unethically obtained, curated, transferred, and used for research and teaching in museums and universities. If we could go so far as to say that anything good has come out of this book, it has been the stimulation in countering these beliefs and developing and strengthening ethical approaches and standards in our field.

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Exercises in ethically engaged work in biological anthropology

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American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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An ethical paradigm shift currently taking place within biological anthropology is pushing scholars to envisage and develop paths toward more ethical futures. Drawing from case studies in our own teaching, research, and fieldwork experience, we reflect on the complex, diverse, and dynamic nature of ethical considerations in our field. We discuss the acquisition and institutional narrative of a human osteological teaching collection at the University of Louisville as an embodiment of structural apathy turned structural violence, and the need for professional guidance in the potential retirement of deceased individuals from our classrooms. In documented collections (i.e., the Robert J. Terry Collection), we share our process and scholarly reemphasis of the humanity of a deceased individual through contextualized analysis (i.e., osteobiography and archival history) and postmortem agentive acts. Lastly, we present an archeological site in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which poses ethical concerns as biocultural bioarcheologists and archeologists attempt to negotiate the possible wishes of the deceased with the cultural value of reconstructing the community's otherwise undocumented past, all amidst the immediate threat of anthropogenic climate change. We offer these exercises and discussion in ethically engaged projects transparently and with an overarching admission that none are models for replication. Rather, at various stages in our careers and engagement with ethics, we acknowledge that progress is worthwhile, albeit challenging, and that proceeding forward collectively as biological anthropologists should be deliberate, reflexive, and compassionate for deceased individuals and their descendant communities, as well as among and between colleagues.

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What Is Bioethos?

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2021

Bioarchaeology and Social Theory

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Ethical Issues of Bioarchaeology in New Zealand-Aotearoa: Relationships, Research, and Repatriation

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Moving beyond Weiss and Springer’sRepatriation and Erasing the Past:Indigenous values, relationships, and research

Moving beyond Weiss and Springer’sRepatriation and Erasing the Past:Indigenous values, relationships, and research

Exercises in ethically engaged work in biological anthropology

What Is Bioethos?

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