Description
Book SynopsisOver the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. The Force of Family is an ethnography of those efforts to repatriate ancestral remains from museums around the world.
Trade Review'This work is beautifully crafted contribution to repatriation and critical heritage studies... Highly recommended.' -- K.S. Fine-Dare Choice Magazine vol 52:04:2014
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Departures and Arrivals Chapter 3: Family, Morality and Haida Repatriation Chapter 4: The Structural Qualities and Cultural Values of Haida Kinship Chapter 5: The Values of Yahgudang: The Relationships Between Self and Others Chapter 6: The Structuring of Kinship and History Chapter 7: The Place of Repatriation within Collective Memory Chapter 8: Conclusions and Beginnings Notes Project Interviews References