Two scholars who study death rituals explain that the corpse is considered spiritually polluting in many religious traditions, while the Moon holds a sacred place.
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Forensic anthropologists are specialized scientists who analyze the skeletal remains of the recently deceased to help authorities figure out who the person was and what happened to them.
Hopefully more curators and custodians of repositories of human skeletal remains will attempt to redress some of the wrongs of the past.
Burial land is running low in certain parts of the world. It’s about time we started to consider the environmental cost of our final resting place.
All that remains of the political icon is a tooth, but it represents much more than just a human trophy.
The proposed National Resting Place in Canberra will be a vital step towards a more complete telling of this nation’s story.
Proposed legislation would identify and protect African American cemeteries. But it wouldn’t cover the remains of thousands of Black people in museum collections.
An expert on forensic science explains the critical role of coroners and pathologists in the COVID-19 crisis, as many cities struggle to manage the soaring number of dead bodies.
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.
Ancient DNA allows scientists to learn directly from the remains of people from the past. As this new field takes off, researchers are figuring out how to ethically work with ancient samples and each other.
Protesters have urged a boycott of Sydney’s current Real Bodies exhibition, over claims that it could display remains of executed Chinese political prisoners.
Are DNA samples today’s version of the human skeletons that hung in 20th-century natural history museums? They can provide genetic revelations about our species’ history – but at an ethical price.
A 9,000-year-old skeleton became a high-profile and highly contested case for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. How do we respectfully deal with ancient human remains?
You don’t have to be a physician or anatomist to be curious about how bodies work. Exhibits of dead human specimens have been around for quite a while – capitalizing on our fascination with death.
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Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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PhD Candidate in History, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Doctoral Student in Anthropology, American University
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Associate professor of Forensic Science, Murdoch University
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Adjunct Lecturer in Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University
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Professor of Anthropology, Clemson University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Clemson University
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Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Ethics, Cosmological Visionaries project, King's College London
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
