Archaeology & Museum Studies

Tiffany Jenkins, Author of the Month, August 2010

Dr. Tiffany Jenkins, author of the upcoming book, Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections, is a sociologist, journalist, and cultural commentator. She is Arts and Society Director of the London based think-tank, the Institute of Ideas, a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, and a member of the Working Group on Cultural Property and Heritage Law.

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In her new book, available this fall, Tiffany Jenkins charts the influences at play on the contestation over human remains and examines the construction of this problem from a cultural perspective.

Read about a recent controversy over displaying ancient skeletons in a museum.

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Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections

The Crisis of Cultural Authority

By Tiffany Jenkins

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Since the late 1970s human remains in museum collections have been subject to claims and controversies, such as demands for repatriation by indigenous groups who suffered under colonization. These requests have been strongly contested by scientists who research the material and consider it unique...

Published October 20th 2010 by Routledge
Museums and their Communities

Edited by Sheila Watson

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. Focusing on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, Sheila...

Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge