Heritage, ancestry and law
Subtitle: principles, policies and practices in dealing with historical human remains
By: edited by Ruth Redmond-Cooper
Publisher: Institute of Art and Law Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Builth Wells, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781903987377
Subjects: Human remains (Archaeology); Congresses; Protection; Cultural property; Law and legislation
Notes: "Essays... [from] a seminar organised jointly by the Institute of Art and Law and the Natural History Museum"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Margaret Clegg and Sarah Long; title: Relinquishment, remembrance and repose : models for the domicile of human remains  -- Norman Palmer; title: Repatriation research : archives and the recovery of history and heritage  -- Cressida Fforde, Lyndon Ormond-Parker and Paul Turnbull; title: We need to lay our ancestors to rest : the repatriation of indigenous human remains and the Human Rights Act  -- Kevin Chamberlain; title: Human remains as artistic expression and the common law offence of outraging public decency : "human earrings", human rights and R. v. Gibson revisited  -- Tom Lewis; title: Licensing public displays : a perspective from the regulator  -- Carolyn Browne; title: Natural History Museum and human remains  -- Margaret Clegg and Sarah Long; title: Display of archaeological human skeletal remains in museums  -- Jelena Bekvalac; title: Burial law and archaeology in the Church of England's jurisdiction  -- Joseph Elders; title: Development of land and human remains  -- Richard Harwood; title: Remains, research and respect : some reflections on burial archaeology and the current law and policy relating to treatment of the "anciently dead"  -- Carolyn Shelbourn; title: French experience of repatriation of human remains  -- Mathilde Roellinger; title: Infamous William Corder : a family divided  -- Nathalie Gates; title: Case note on Richard III : (The Queen on Application of Plantaget Alliance Ltd) v. Secretary of State for Justice  -- Harry Martin; title: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act  -- Kevin Chamberlain; title: Kennewick Man, statutory interpretation and the first North Americans -- Alexander Herman.