[PDF.32sh] Grave Matters: Excavating California's Buried Past

Grave Matters: Excavating California's Buried Past

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 | #655694 in Books |  2011-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.70 x5.90l,.85 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Should be required reading for every person considering an archaeological excavation|By Custerboy|Would you want someone digging up your ancestors and cataloging their remains? Tony Platt cuts through the dogma of "education" and tells it like it is.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A must-read for the history of Northern California| |''This is how social and cultural history should be written.'' --George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place| ''A must read for archaeologists--something I never learned in college.'' --Janet Eidsness, consultant in heritage resources management, T

What do we find when we dig up the past?

Whether by curious Boy Scouts and ''backyard archaeologists'' or competitive collectors and knowledge-hungry anthropologists, the excavation of native remains is a time-honored practice fraught with injustice and simmering resentments.

Grave Matters is the history of the treatment of native remains in California and the story of the complicated relationship between researcher and researched. Tony Platt begins h...

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