Indiana Jones's last ride  A legacy to celebrate or bury
Channel: The Conversation
Date: 2023-09-09

Original air date: June 29th, 2023

We all love watching a good adventure movie, especially at the start of summer. Today, the final Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was released, 42 years after the first movie. The original film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, shaped childhoods; but many of its originating ideas are taken from 19th-century racist archeology. Will this iteration be different?

As the film series - and season 5 of Don’t Call Me Resilient - comes to an end, we explore that famous statement, made by its main character, Indiana Jones: “it belongs in a museum.”

Host Vinita Srivastava discusses all things Indiana Jones with Penn State University Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Christopher Heaney. Will the Indiana Jones franchise reflect the changes in anthropology departments and the growing movements from Indigenous and Global South communities to return stolen objects and ancestors from western museums? 

Show notes:  https://theconversation.com/listen-indiana-joness-last-ride-a-legacy-to-celebrate-or-bury-208557