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The ethics of collecting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2005

EA Sackler
EA Sackler
Affiliation:
American Indian Repatriation Foundation, 463 E. 57th Street, New York, NY 10022, USA
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The author questions the concepts underlying ethnological collections of art and artifacts in the context of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Alternatives to traditional Western anthropological and art historical methods of collection and display of sacred Native American material are found in traditional Native American philosophy and practice. The contemporary fashion among curators for contextualization of displayed objects from Indigenous cultures is critiqued in the light of broader ethical concerns regarding the appropriateness of collecting sacred objects from living Indigenous Peoples.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 132 - 140
Copyright
© The International Cultural Property Society

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