The museum of natural history returned 138bones to Torres Strait Islanders.
People of Australia and New Guine are happy to have back the bones of 138 men and women. It is believed that this is the biggest repatriation of human remains from any UK museum collection. They said that this is a wonderful moment for them because their people are “coming home”.
The biggest ranging of skeletons has been en England since 19th, but it has been transported to Australia as souvenirs, or as a private collections.
For twenty years native people is reclaiming the bones, but the museums weren’t legally allowed to return the collections.
Since 2006 the Human Tissues Act gave national museums the power of return some things of value to the communities who where agree with the repatriation.
In this case the repatriation doesn’t mean that the science will lose the research, instead this could continue for years. Also the museum is offering to build a place where to keep the bones there because the study can provide answers to this people about their past.
In response to that a native said that they are not doing this for the science, they are doing it because those are remains of human being. But they don’t deny scientific studies.
This is the link of the article! http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/mar/10/museum-returns-torres-strait-islanders-bones?INTCMP=SRCH
The repatriation sounds really good for the native of this islands! It's a good new for the people (: .
ReplyDeletethat's wonderful, It's a real issue for scientist when they have to return remains, but I think it was time. I heard someone say that UK and France are the biggest looters of thew world XDD
ReplyDeletei have care , not always the native cultural dosen't know what to do, or like another case that they sold his patrimony to another foreign. But is really good the repartriation...
ReplyDeleteIt complicated the relationship between researchers who take the possessions, objects, or as in this case remains of human ancestors and the natives who feel robbed. Sometimes anthropologists or archaeologists violate ethics, surpassing the native.
ReplyDeletei really hope that the native people received some things of value for their. (Is a very beautiful place !!!)
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