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Claiming the Aboriginal Body in Tasmania

An Anthropological Study of Repatriation and Redress

dc.contributor.authorPetrović-Šteger, Maja
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-01T11:44:22Z
dc.date.available2022-04-01T11:44:22Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifierONIX_20220401_9789612544867_52
dc.identifier.issn2335-4208
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/79958
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesProstor, kraj, čas
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania & other land areas::1MB Australasia::1MBF Australia::1MBFT Tasmania
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
dc.subject.otherAborigines
dc.subject.otheranthropology
dc.subject.otherbody
dc.subject.otherDNA analyzes
dc.subject.othere-books
dc.subject.otherhuman body
dc.subject.othermuseums
dc.subject.otherrepatriation
dc.subject.otherTasmania
dc.subject.otherAborigini
dc.subject.otherantropologija
dc.subject.otherčloveško telo
dc.subject.otherDNK analize
dc.subject.otherelektronske knjige
dc.subject.othermuzeji
dc.subject.otherrepatriacija
dc.subject.otherTasmanija
dc.subject.othertelo
dc.titleClaiming the Aboriginal Body in Tasmania
dc.title.alternativeAn Anthropological Study of Repatriation and Redress
dc.typebook
oapen.abstract.otherlanguageHow do contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginals think of the body? How do they think of the dead body and of their human remains? This work examines the intersection of different cultural, biological and legal concepts of authenticity and belonging as these concepts come into focus as the stake of disputes over Aboriginal remains. In claiming remains, Tasmanians engage a complex set of discursive practices in which the aboriginal body is denoted, performed and negotiated in various ways as the sign of ancestral rights. Petrović-Šteger attends particularly to the language in which Tasmanian human remains are accounted for, appropriated and resignified in the context of the British policy on repatriation. Her work examines naturalist interpretations of both Tasmanian Aboriginal and Western ideas of biology, ancestry and kinship. Attending to a number of recalcitrant concepts—including those of the authority of science, purity of indigenous peoples and exclusive rights of descendants—Petrović-Šteger considers questions arising from contemporary data collection processes as they image and measure remains, and subject them to DNA and isotopic analysis. The collection also broaches the question of how contemporary understandings of Tasmanian indigeneity and ancestral rights are constituted and promoted through the use of various scientific, museological and representational technologies.
oapen.identifier.doi10.3986/9789612544867
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy013302f9-95d5-488d-83b2-a050c348c14f
oapen.relation.isbn9789612544867
oapen.series.number3
oapen.pages111
oapen.place.publicationLjubljana


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