scholarly journals Demands for restitution – a recent phenomenon? Early histories of human remains violations in Namibia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Dag Henrichsen
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Early Colonial

Current demands by Namibian families and communities for restitution of humanremains and so-called ethnographic objects in European collections are rooted inmuch longer traditions of restitution demands than is generally anticipated. In thispaper I discuss pre- and early colonial human remains violations and African protestand resistance, which triggered principal restitution, demands and fostered a critiqueof colonial scientific practices, all of which resonate in current restitution politics.

scholarly journals Re-individualising human remains from Namibia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Larissa Förster ◽  
Dag Henrichsen ◽  
Holger Stoecker ◽  
Hans Axasi╪Eichab
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
German Scientist ◽  
South West ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Science ◽  
Colonial Archive ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
Scientific Objects

In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains, which were anonymised in the course of their appropriation by Western science, the authors consult not only the colonial archive, but also contemporary oral history in Namibia. This allows for a detailed reconstruction of the social and political contexts of the deaths of the three men, named Jacobus Hendrick, Jacobus !Garisib and Oantab, and of Belck’s grave robbery, for an analysis of how the remains were turned into scientific objects by German science and institutions, as well as for an establishment of topographical and genealogical links with the Namibian present. Based on these findings, claims for the restitution of African human remains from German institutions cannot any longer be regarded as a contemporary phenomenon only but must be understood as part of an African tradition of resistance against Western colonial and scientific practices.

Palaeodiet inferred from pre‐Hispanic and early colonial human remains from Carrizales, Zaña Valley, Peru

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany L. Turner ◽  
Parker VanValkenburgh ◽  
Kristina E. Lee ◽  
Benjamin J. Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Early Colonial

Of Shoe-Form Vessels and Ethnographic Analogy

1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward B. Sisson
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Tehuacán Valley ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Tehuacan Valley ◽  
Late Postclassic

D. M. Varner does not make a good case for a continuity in the function of the shoe-form vessels from Oaxaca. In the neighboring Tehuacan Valley during the Late Postclassic and Early Colonial periods, shoe-form vessels served as receptacles for cremated human remains.

Human Remains

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains

Collective Memory, Personal Pain: The Circulation of 9/11 Unidentified Human Remains

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh ◽  
Ventura Perez ◽  
Heidi Bauer-Clapp
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Human Remains

Mapping Senegambia: Legacies of Ambition and the Failure of an Early Colonial Venture

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-231
Author(s):  
Sven Outram-Leman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Senegal River ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Secure Access ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
River Niger

Britain's short-lived Province of Senegambia (1765–1783) was part of an expansion effort in the region driven by a desire to secure access to the gum trade of the Senegal river. Drawing on Britain's knowledge of France's dealings with the Upper-Senegal region it was complemented by the adoption of French cartography, edited to illustrate a new colonial identity. It is argued here that there was an additional motive of developing closer contact with the African interior. This pre-dates the establishment of the African Association in 1788 and its subsequent and better-known expeditions to the River Niger. In contrast to the French, however, the British struggled to engage with the region. This paper approaches the topic from a perspective of cartographic history. It highlights Thomas Jeffery's map of ‘Senegambia Proper’ (1768), copied from Jean Baptiste Bourguingnon d'Anville's ’Carte Particuliére de la Côte Occidentale de l'Afrique' (1751) and illustrative of several obstacles facing both British map-making and colonial expansion in mid-eighteenth century Africa. It is argued that the later enquiries and map-making activities of the African Association, which were hoped to lead to the colonisation of West Africa, built upon these experiences of failure in Senegambia.

Three Cists from Tayvallich, Argyll

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Lehane
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains

Summary Three cists were discovered during the rebuilding of a house in Tayvallich. They appear to have been inserted into a roughly oval pit. All three cists contained cremated human remains and Cist 3 also contained a food vessel with beaker affinities. Lithics from among the cairn material appear to be a redeposited Mesolithic assemblage.

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