Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits by Chip Colwell

Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. These specific stories reveal a dramatic process that involves not merely obeying the law, but negotiating the blurry lines between identity and morality, spirituality and politics. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits as its meant to be heard, narrated by Chip Colwell. This book offers his personal account of the process of repatriation, following the trail of four objects as they were created, collected, and ultimately returned to their sources: a sculpture that is a living god, the scalp of a massacre victim, a ceremonial blanket, and a skeleton from a tribe considered by some to be extinct. Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to help them recover their looted heritage from museums across the country. As senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Chip Colwell navigated firsthand the questions of how to weigh the religious freedom of Native Americans against the academic freedom of scientists and whether the emptying of museum shelves elevates human rights or destroys a common heritage. These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits. He has worked on four repatriations as detailed in. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past Museums that care for the objects of history or the. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native Americas Culture by Chip Colwell Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits book.

Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to help them recover their looted heritage from museums across the country. Chip Colwell is the senior curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits.

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits by Chip Colwell