Bibliograph

Power and the passion, our ancestors return home, Shannon Faulkhead, Jim Berg ; with Lynette Russell, Ross L. Jones and Jason Eades.

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Power and the passion, our ancestors return home, Shannon Faulkhead, Jim Berg ; with Lynette Russell, Ross L. Jones and Jason Eades.

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-119)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Power and the passion

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

671303815

Responsibility statement

Shannon Faulkhead, Jim Berg ; with Lynette Russell, Ross L. Jones and Jason Eades.

Sub title

our ancestors return home

Summary

Recounts legal action taken against University of Melbourne and Museum of Victoria regarding their right to keep Indigenous Australian ancestral remains; includes stories of individuals involved, sourced through interview and written account; 25th anniversary of the reburial in Kings Doman Garden; explores the social and cultural implications relating to desecration of Aboriginal graves and removal of remains in the name of curiosity, science and research; repatriation -- Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal perspectives, arguments against repatriation, cultural protocols, ceremony and beliefs, historical circumstances, symbolism, oppression and dispossession and liberation; ownership of Indigenous cultural heritage; archaeology and physical anthropology; colonisation discourse; exhibition of ancestral remains -- Kow Swamp and Keilor skulls; discusses legislation regarding ancestral remains and archaeological material; examines theoretical debates in archaeology

Table Of Contents

pt. 1. Jim's story -- pt. 2. Pride shared through ceremony -- Background -- Reburial at Kings Domain Garden -- Reflections on the Reburial March -- pt. 3. George Murray Black: the man and the collection -- Medical schools and aboriginal bodies / by Ross L. Jones -- reflections on Murray Black's writings / by Lynette Russell -- Murray Black Collection and the University of Melbourne / by Ian Anderson -- I have learnt ... /by Saraj Jo Kylie berg -- pt. 4. Our ancestors return home -- pt. 5. Repatriation and the law -- The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service -- Three Moogjis -- The law -- Then what? -- Cultural responsiibility -- pt. 6. Epilogue

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