The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has come a long way in the last three decades, but museums still have a lot of work to do, and repatriation doesn’t begin and end with the mandates laid out in the regulations. If this work is to be effective and adhere to the spirit of the law, museum practitioners will need to go above and beyond basic compliance by engaging in relationship building, restitution, and authentic storytelling.
This four-week course uses case studies, weekly readings, guest speakers, and discussion to delve into the possibilities, complications, and practice of repatriation beyond NAGPRA.
Join Instructor Amy Covell-Murthy (she/her) for this 4 week online professional development course. Amy is the Archaeology Collection Manager and Head of the Section of Anthropology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has over 15 years of experience as a museum professional and over a decade of experience with repatriation and NAGPRA consultation. Amy’s research focuses on the care of human remains in collecting institutions, especially the formation of pertinent policy and procedure. With this work, she hopes to ensure that people have agency over their own bodies and believes that prioritizing relationships over objects is the only way to dismantle oppressive and colonial frameworks inherent in museum work.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/repatriation-beyond-NAGPRA
Repatriation Beyond NAGPRA online course begins August 31 on Museum Study
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