"Lost and Lonesome": Literary Reflections on Museums and the Roles of Relics
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Schweninger
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 169-199
Description
Analyzes the sociopolitical implications of disinterring bodies in order to put them on display, and discusses the responses of various writers to such issues. The article includes a comparison of display cases in museums, that house Native American bones, to that of zoos.